Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pheasant shoots on the old Habsburg preserves in northern Czechoslovakia, hunters stay in luxurious castles: black tie for dinner is de rigueur. In the mornings, hundreds of peasants fan out through the brush to drive the birds into range. Daily bags run as high as 140 birds per gun. Cost of a "royal weekend," as Red tourist folders unashamedly...
...towns throughout the country, howling student mobs stormed through the streets, fighting police and-as always-attacking U.S. property. In the capital, La Paz, 600 students holed up in the university, for three hours exchanged rifle and submachine-gun fire with police. That it ended when it did was due to the courage of Monsignor Andrew Kennedy, 50, U.S.-born Vicar-General of La Paz. "Students!" the police shouted. "Stop firing! Listen to Monsignor Kennedy!" With two doctors, the stubby, grey-haired clergyman marched through the firing line and into the university. There he found 16 wounded, one dead. Finally...
...tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told her." Why should she? Though he had a pistol range outside his Honolulu office for recreation during the war, he hasn't laid a finger on a gun for the past two years...
When he discovered which professor was Speranza, Furnari whipped out a pistol, shouted, "See this?" and fired five shots. As Speranza fell dead, screaming students bolted for the exits; one teacher tripped and fell trying to escape, the other cowered in a corner. Ignoring them, Furnari calmly pocketed the gun and gave himself up to the police. To his weeping daughter, Furnari said sternly, "Why are you crying? For me? You should have thought of me before. I have vindicated your honor, bambina...
...information in the AEC report was word that the Chinese depended on an implosion (inward-striking detonation) of chemicals to compress their U-235 and make it fission. Such a device is more effective than shooting two chunks of fissionable material toward each other in an apparatus like a gun barrel, as was done in the U.S. bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The U.S. also used the implosion method in its earliest nuclear weapons. Although a surprising number of commentators assumed that use of implosion showed advanced skill by the Chinese, the AEC did not agree. "The low yield...