Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prophecies are false. I must not intrude on Mr. Gromyko's preserve, but I will be very surprised if the young generation of Russians are not rapidly arriving at the same conclusion. Very slowly, but I think perceptibly, the processes of the thaw in international life have be gun ... If imperialism is going out of the window, so is Marx. Good riddance...
Dery's spokesman is an elderly professor who refuses to give refuge to a young freedom fighter after the rebellion is crushed, but who also refuses to hide the revolutionary's machine gun from the Red authorities. Contemptuous of both sides, the professor allows the gun to lie openly in the vestibule of his apartment. Later, the professor travels to the frontier in a train crowded with passengers who hope to flee to the West, at the last moment decides he cannot escape the guilt for having harbored a weapon that was used to kill others...
...Navy weaponeers used to thinking in terms of quick-firing 5-in. guns or huge Polaris missiles, the assignment at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington was far out of line. Their task: to make a gun that could be fired point-blank inside the human head-not to kill but to save. The unusual technical feat required even more unusual ammunition: a piece of hair only one two-hundredth of an inch in diameter and one-fourth of an inch long, which had to pierce something even less resistant than a toy balloon, and do it with such delicate...
...sheer luck, the tunnel came out in an abandoned cellar in East Berlin. Not knowing what to expect, the first student to crawl out carried a submachine gun. The usual manner of contacting prospective escapees was practiced: the student-diggers drew up a list of friends in East Berlin and then someone with a West German or foreign passport went legally through the Wall, looked up the people on the list and verbally gave the necessary instructions...
...Gone Gun Sights. Its '63s should indeed tide Chrysler over. The new IMPERIAL has been improved by a bolder grille and the elimination of its protruding "gunsight" taillights. The NEW YORKER has a clean and handsome new rear end, will offer luxury lovers optional bucket seats. Replacing the Dodge Lancer (which has been dropped) as the smallest Dodge is a new, intermediate-sized DART that has perky styling and peppy performance. The PLYMOUTH, which in 1962 shrank to an intermediate, has begun to grow again (to an overall length of 205 in.) and has acquired a more substantial look...