Word: guns
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Though the distinguished visitor would not officially achieve the rank of head of state until his country withdraws its allegiance next fall to the British Crown (though not the Commonwealth), his hosts in nearby Conakry, the capital of Guinea, decided to give him a 21-gun salute anyway. In a few minutes, a cane-swinging Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana strode down the gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny...
...blue and yellow circles holds the implication that from the marksman's stand it would be seen as a sphere of green . . . From a national emblem the flag becomes a symbol of ambiguity; from the insignia it is converted into poetry ... If a flashlight instead of a gun is aimed at the target of displaced colors the silence grows louder...
...heckler, wraps a whipstalk around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order to come to the town of Bottleneck. And it does, with no-gun Deputy Tom Destry (Andy Griffith) fresh out of law school and full of wide open spaces in his speech...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A first teleplay by Joe Palmer Jr.; Actor Richard Boone (The Rivalry; Have Gun, Will Travel) plays a tuberculosis patient of unusual imagination...
Late the second night Warden Powell heard over his ever-working prison grapevine that Myles had decided to burn the hostages. He acted quickly, led a 50-guardsmen bazooka, machine-gun and rifle attack. The first bazooka "V-O-O-R-O-O-M" so shook the cons that they got only one naphtha jug poured, never got it lit before machine guns scared them away. Wept one guard: "It was like getting your life back again...