Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slipped through the predawn darkness into the north coast Cuban port of Caibarién, 210 miles southeast of Havana. Navigating by compass, the launch found its way to the San Pascual, an old Cuban steamer grounded on a concrete base and used as a molasses storehouse. A machine gun chattered, and a burst of .50-caliber slugs ripped into the cabin; an explosion split the night. The launch drew up beside a second ship, the 7,O43-ton British freighter Newlane, and machine guns blazed again, riddling the funnel and crew quarters. The boat gunned its engines...
...would help get his body out of the car. Several came up and just stared. All the cliches came true: the dead man's gun was gripped hard between his hands, and so I had to pry open his fingers one by one. Then the gun was jammed against the car roof. He was terribly heavy, as dead bodies are supposed to be. When I finally managed to drag him out, the road was under fire. The ambulance driver then helped me lift the corpse onto a stretcher and we put it into the ambulance...
...evidence, Kennedy said, of "any organized combat force in Cuba from any Soviet-bloc country." He stressed that the Russians landing in Cuba are not troops but technicians-and he seemed to take comfort from that fact. But Castro does not need troops; he has all the home-grown gun toters he can use. What he does need, and what he is getting. is the electronics, radar and missile experts so vital to modern warfare...
...time for this weekend's starting gun approached, the word in Newport was "Weatherly in four" in the best-of-seven competition for the America's Cup. Weatherly was ready. Well tuned by the trial races that made her the U.S. defender, she lay in the ways at Newport Shipyard undergoing final polishing, then was set in the water for minor ballast shifts. At week's end her crew arrived to pace out the dwindling days before the meeting with the Australian challenger Gretel. By contrast, the Australian 12-meter lay inert under the hurried tread...
...Ford sedan turned into Harlem's Lenox Avenue and hurtled north, a blazing tommy gun poking out of its window. At 118th Street, the gun jammed...