Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas, where most folks try hard not to forget the region's colorful, gun-smoking past, anybody may own a pistol without a license (but it is illegal to tote it). All that the most conscientious pawnbroker will demand of a prospective gun-buyer is a "certificate of good character." But the fact is, as Houston Post Reporter John Davis once wrote sardonically: "All you need to buy a $29.50 gun...
Armored with the courage that comes from living year after year under the gun, the Turks are unimpressed by Russia's rocket-rattlings. In the midst of Turkey's election campaign last fall, Khrushchev threatened the Turks with atomic extinction if they "interfered" in Syria (TIME, Oct. 21); neither Menderes nor any other Turkish politician thought the matter important enough to warrant more than passing mention in their speeches. At the Paris summit meeting this winter, most European NATO members dithered unhappily over the wisdom of accepting U.S. missile bases; Menderes spoke up to announce that Turkey...
Future Hopes. Even though Larrazabal promised free elections "as soon as possible," the memory of Pérez Jiménez' persecution left Venezuela's long-harassed politicians still a bit gun-shy. In exile in New York, a joint "Great Civic Front" was tentatively pieced together by Venezuela's three foremost political leaders: Rómulo Betancourt, 49, president of a semimilitary government from 1945 to 1948 and head of the left-wing Democratic Action Party; Rafael Caldera, 41, leader of the Copei (Christian Social) Party; and Jóvito Villalba, 49, head of the middle...
...Panama's Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón became national police chief in 1947, made and unmade five Presidents, won a free election himself in 1952, was chopped down, at 46, by machine gun bullets at Panama City's old Juan Franco race track in January...
...casino if they're not with their own wives that they'll be seen all over America." Producer Harbach needed to clear a path for Steve Lawrence's long stroll through the casino and lobby ("Don't worry, I'll get a machine gun"), and to run interference for Comedian Costello during his 20-second dash from the casino to the next set on the nightclub stage...