Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curbing interstate traffic in firearms. Though control of gun ownership is essentially a state concern, it cannot be effective until the Federal Government regulates mail-order sales of firearms...
...greeted by a 21-gun salute-and the ridiculous announcement that he had become "President and Party Chairman" of Guinea. "From today and even tomorrow and the day after tomorrow," declared Sekou, "whenever there is a heads-of-state conference, he who speaks in the name of Guinea can be no other than the comrade and brother Kwame Nkrumah...
Last May, James Reston decided that the President resembled "the two-gun Texas Ranger, the impulsive giant, tough, restless, fitful and unpredictable." He is given to "disorderly policy-making and capricious personal judgments," said Reston. Sulzberger saw a much different man. "On the surface," he wrote, a casual observer might see an "air of precipitate haste that accompanies presidential decisions when new crises erupt. But underlying such agitation there also appears to be a remark ably calm resolve not to be provoked by minor pinpricks nor to be impelled toward holocaust by local explosions...
...pistol shot, the report of suicide just before the final curtain. But most modern productions of Chekhov ignore the pistol shot, treating it as a melodramatic fillip tagged on to two and a half hours of detached psychological observation. Sir John Gielgud's production of Ivanov, however, takes the gun shot seriously. His choice of play, his acting in the title role, and his direction, all present a more involved and perhaps truer Chekhov than is currently fashionable...
Miss Merman has appeared in such Broadway successes as Call Me Madam, Annie Get Your Gun, and Gypsy...