Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived it up: down the corridors of the hospital he loped (as best he could) with his toy cowboy gun hanging from his hip. Back home at Blair House, there were cowboy and Indian suits, a drum, a road-scraper, a Mickey Mouse hat, a bicycle, lollipops, a toy tractor from the President. As if proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter...
...refused to let him drive or walk alone. The Kings moved most of their furniture into back rooms, leaving the living room virtually bare. King briefly considered arming himself, but decided against it ("As the leader of a nonviolent movement, I'd look pretty bad carrying a gun"). Coretta King took their infant daughter to Atlanta, but soon returned. "When I'm away from this," she says, "I get depressed. I feel completely helpless...
Kaiser Aluminum Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). In So Short a Season Albert Salmi plays a town clown who turns out to be the fastest gun around...
...couple of Olympic champions, Ron Delany and Tom Courtney, ran away with everything but the starter's gun at the 68th annual Boston Athletic Association games. Loping along just back of the pacesetters in the 600-yd. run, Fordham Alumnus Courtney shifted into high on the backstretch of the next-to-last lap, shot into the lead and finished 20 yds. in front of Villanova's Joe Gaffney, who now runs for the Army. It all seemed so easy that even Tom was surprised to hear his time: a world-record-equaling 1:09.5. In the mile...
...single magnetic explosion, which makes a bang like a big gun, destroys costly apparatus, so Furth, Levine and Waniek are trying to design a super-magnet that will not destroy itself. The basic idea is to oppose one magnetic force by another magnetic force instead of by the passive strength of metal. Theoretically this can be done by elaborately wound coils, or by copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned...