Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Golden Gun, Fleming...
...offer an addendum to your story on the Amazon medical mission of the Peruvian gun boat Loreto [Sept. 17]. For more than a year Project HOPE has been cooperating in this Government program through the services of two American nurses, Barbara Schwenk and Betty Carlson. Like the Loreto, our ship is not exactly "the pride and joy of anyone's navy." The Cayetana Heridia is a 50-ft. converted boat, not handsome, but a joy to hundreds of thousands in the jungles of the Amazon in Loreto state. Miss Carlson lives aboard the craft under less than adequate conditions...
China's charges relate to two 14,000ft. mountain passes, Natu and Jelep, that lead to Tibet's Chumbi Valley. In this bleak terrain, swept by chill north winds, Peking claims the Indians have built "56 military structures," ranging from concrete gun positions to entrenchments, on China's soil. India concedes it has fortified the passes but insists the fortifications are on Sikkimese territory...
...Meanwhile, Boggs and Dixie had driven Flory's pickup truck, with a .22-cal. revolver in the glove compartment, to Oklahoma where they abandoned it, kept the gun and began hitchhiking. They were picked up by two Newport, N.H., men, Robert Willis, 23, and Halvor Johnson, 28 who were driving in Johnson's black Simca to Los Angeles to look for work...
...plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk of a silenced gun and the rat-a-tat of sound-track percussion to activate their endocrines...