Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first it looked like a clear victory for the moderates. Backed by gun-toting aides, Shabib and Jawad seized Saadi and three other Cabinet ministers, bundled them into a military plane without luggage and flew them to exile in Madrid-where Saadi kept hinting that he would yet return to Iraq in triumph...
...girl who effects this contrast is a British actress with dark red hair, a smile that could win a war or at least make one worth losing, and "a light in her eye"-as one London critic rhapsodized-"which would melt the heart of a gun dog." At the moment, she is starring in the London production of Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary, and, as another critic summarized the reaction of all, "the night belongs to Miss Smith-laconic and nervous, superb in comedy, touching in pathos, a gem of an actress, a dish...
...gun that blazed the trails of the Western frontier was the famous six-shooter made by Colt's Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. One hundred and twenty-seven years after its founding, Colt is still capable of kicking up dust. After a lengthy dispute within the Pentagon over whether to adopt a new rifle, the Defense Department earlier this month granted Colt, still the nation's largest maker of pistols and revolvers, a $13.3 million order to turn out an ingenious Colt rifle that has already proved its worth on a new frontier: the jungles of South Viet...
...touring the West and selling doses of laughing gas to entertainment-starved settlers. The Mexican War made him big, and he expanded by selling to all comers, including Southern secessionists right up until the shooting at Fort Sumter. After his death in 1862, a succession of brilliant Yankee gun-smiths made Colt the world's most famous name in hand guns...
Colt got the M-16 in a roundabout way. The new rifle was invented by a West Coast gunsmith, who sold the patent to the Fairchild Stratos Corp. Not equipped to make guns, Fairchild four years ago sold the rights to Colt, whose know-how quickly worked the bugs out of the gun. Colt needed a going thing. Having fallen on hard times after World War II, the company in 1955 was taken over by Penn-Texas Corp., which later became Fairbanks Whitney. A vast conglomeration of ill-matched companies, Fairbanks Whitney has run through four separate managements...