Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actors. Arthur O'Connell, as a coony old sergeant, gives the finest performance of his screen career. Actor Boone, in trying to evoke the warrior imago, at times seems less a man than a manner-like Paladin, the sixgun-slinger he plays on TV's Have Gun, Will Travel, he shoots every word from the lip. But at the same time, Boone sets up a strong magnetic pole that centers the whole story, and he reveals beneath the captain's military brusqueness a capacity to suffer, an intensity of tenderness that is moving and rarely beautiful...
...toss Lott into a damp, stone walled dungeon beneath the Fortress of Laje, a turret-topped rock jutting above the waters of Rio Bay. On Denys' orders, more than 100 army officers, loyal to Lott and insisting that the constitution be respected, were rounded up at Tommy-gun point in Rio. To uneasy reporters standing before his white cottage in Brasilia Denys cried: "Do you want your children to be brought up Communists? The time has come to choose." Committees of Resistance. But now ' other voices were beginning to make themselves heard in Brazil - not in favor...
...bomb shelter with a removable top that could double as a swimming pool. But after reading about the Davis family [Aug. 18], I decided that it would be much better to die from the bomb's fallout than live in a world ridden with people that would gun down their neighbors...
...troops (600 Americans, 200 British, 200 French) were taking positions all along the 25-mile East-West city frontier. Where the Wilhelmstrasse enters Communist territory, a hard-bitten U.S. sergeant and his crew raced up in a Jeep armed with a 106-mm. recoilless rifle and parked with the gun's muzzle pointed directly across at the Reds. At Friedrichstrasse-the one entry point now open to non-Germans-a platoon of American infantrymen moved up directly to the border opposite a group of East German Vopos and a water-cannon truck; an M48 tank and two armored cars...
...British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap and gun. "There's no trouble catching them," says E. A. Ellis, secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. "The coypu is mentally slow. Once caught he just waits for death, not fighting but moaning. In one area we killed 40,000. But that's only a fleabite's worth...