Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN the Hungarians first rose in courageous revolt, their Communist government quickly cut communications with the outside world. But Western newsmen were soon shuttling across the Austro-Hungarian border. Their first piecemeal reports came back in fragments as staccato as burp-gun bursts, and first photographs could give only scattered glimpses of the struggle. This week the editors of LIFE present a report in detail and depth of the critical period of the revolution in a book called Hungary's Fight for Freedom, compiled from on-the-spot reports by TIME and LIFE correspondents and other news sources...
...been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them in,a Russian armored car screeched to a halt, and out popped a soldier who sprayed the doorway with his Tommy gun. Nagy & Co. got inside the door safely, but Milovnov crumpled to the ground, dead...
...weather had been gloomy for weeks, but for the games it kindly brightened. From the opening shot of a starter's gun, they got off to a crowd-pleasing start, and Olympic records fell like eucalyptus leaves. And, scorekeeping or no, it quickly became a suspenseful duel between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. fielded the best team ever assembled- including such 1952 Olympic champions as Shotputter Parry O'Brien (see below). Soviet Russia, shut out of all the gold medals in men's track at the Helsinki Olympics, sent to Australia a well-trained and determined...
...Mattel Inc.'s "Burp Gun" ($3) shoots off 50 caps in seven seconds...
...understand" the workingman, she took a job as factory hand in an auto plant ("a decision fundamentally silly, the illusion of the Vassar girl of all lands," as one critic put it). Although she fell ill with pleurisy, she enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists, vowing never to use the gun she was issued. Before she died in England during World War II, she starved herself by refusing, though weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime food ration allotted her countrymen in France...