Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly classified new Army gun, the SPIW (for Special Purpose Individual Weapon), which is being developed as a replacement for both the current M-14 rifle and the M-79 grenade launcher. An under/over rifle, the SPIW fires fast bursts of small lethal, high-velocity darts called fléchettes from its top barrel and 40-mm. antipersonnel grenades from its bottom barrel. The Army has already spent $15 million on the gun, will pick a final version next year...
...gun salute boomed out, British Governor General Sir Glyn Jones waved from the doorway of the Malawi Airways Viscount. A moment later he disappeared inside, and the plane soared northward toward Britain. All alone in the middle of a red carpet stood Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, waving his fly whisk after the plane. It was a last fond farewell between the two men who had worked together to prepare Malawi for independence in 1964 and for last week's ceremonies, which established Malawi as a republic and Banda as its first President...
White-suited diplomats filed into Santo Domingo's glittering National Palace. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers. A few moments later, a 21-gun salute pounded out over the Caribbean and rolled across the Santo Domingo coastal plain, signaling to Dominicans the inauguration of the country's first constitutional President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have...
Suddenly last summer, the woman accused her husband of menacing her with a .38-cal. revolver and threatening to kill himself. A Dallas County justice of the peace patched up that fight by telling the husband, former Electronics Technician Kenneth Porter, to get the gun out of the house and go to church. The advice obviously took, for Mrs. Porter, 24, is now awaiting the birth of her third child (her first by Porter) at home in a Dallas suburb. Porter is out of work just now, but the baby bills should be paid promptly just the same. Mrs. Porter...
...quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then there was Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, the late ace recruiter of new talent for the Chicago syndicate. "He could reach into the backwoods and find talented machine-gun players the way George Halas sometimes spots star material in small colleges...