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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper editor sent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru a submachine gun as a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: What War? | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Cussing Gusto. NBC, turning cartwheels as if it had just signed Christopher Marlowe, announced last week that Odets has agreed to participate in a TV series with Star Richard Boone of Have Gun Will Travel that will be quite similar to the old summer stock company on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents: a different play each week, acted by a regular repertory company but with guest stars. Odets will supervise all the scripts and write at least four of the first 13 shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Credo of a Wrong-Living Man | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...these toys fail to please, nationwide big sellers also include Douglas Army A-24 Attack Bomber, 155M Long Tom Field Cannon, Cape Canaveral Play Set, 5' long Basooka Rocket Gun, Electronic Rifle Range with Motorized Moving Target, Sonar Subhunt with a radar screen so you can "search out and destroy your enemy," and Astroscope, that "Sends Up Satellites" (only for children over...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Big Bruiser, King Zor, Santa Claus Usher in Christmas | 12/13/1962 | See Source »

King Zor, Glass's most expensive toy this year, is a terrifying-looking, three-foot plastic dinosaur. Six plastic "prehistoric rocks" are loaded into Zor's back. The child then fires a dart gun at a red target on the beast's tail; a bull's-eye causes Zor to lunge toward the nursery-school St. George and launch one of his projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Plastic Sugarplums | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...minute, not exactly kicking and screaming, the lieutenant is hauled off to the hay by a muscular milkmaid (Didi Perego); the next he is watching a German tommy gun chop down a refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Is Heh-Heh-Hell | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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