Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Golden Gun, Fleming...
...camp's 400 montagnard defenders were patrolling assiduously up to ten miles away, no one thought to poke around his own front yard. Into each Communist pit went tidy stacks of ammo, a Chinese automatic rifle at one end, an ugly, snub-snouted 12.5-mm. antiaircraft machine gun at the other. Every emplacement was manned by a single gunner and designed so that he could scuttle quickly between his submachine-gun, trained on the camp, and the antiaircraft gun whenever fighter-bombers appeared...
...Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, Youssoupoff fed Rasputin cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide "sufficient to kill several men instantly." Rasputin merely "coughed," looked "drunk," and asked the prince to sing. Appalled, and in no mood for warbling, the prince ran upstairs to consult his friends and get a gun from the Grand Duke Dmitri. Creeping downstairs again, the prince finally told Rasputin to pray-then put two bullets into his body...
What the show is blessed with is Barbara Harris, a versatile, beguiling imp of a clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
...Gadgetry. Also at work for the U.S. in Viet Nam is an array of ingenious gadgetry that smacks of baling wire-and of Buck Rogers. Puff the Magic Dragon is an old C-47 transport rigged with three 7.62 Gatling-type guns -each a fascine of six machine-gun barrels. In the time it takes to say "puff," the Dragon can spit 300 bullets at Viet Cong on the ground. "It's a solid bar of fire," explains a U.S. officer, "and the noise is a terrible roar." The Lightning Bug is a UH-1B helicopter fitted with seven...