Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tower. "We've got to have fuel." The purposefully dawdling ground crew quickly filled the tanks, unhooked the line. As the big engines screamed and the plane taxied toward a takeoff, a motorcade of lawmen suddenly raced out of their hiding places and poured a fusillade of machine-gun and rifle bullets into the undercarriage. The 707 jerked to a stop, its eight tires flattened (see cut) and the No. 2 engine knocked...
...over and over; uncooperative prisoners are plunged into ice water, shifted back and forth from brightly lit cells to black solitary confinement, questioned for endless hours. The VIPs (very important prisoners) are sometimes forced, Chinese-style, to dig their own graves before "firing squads'' of jeering. Tommy-gun-toting militiamen; at the last instant, "reprieve'' comes and the shattered prisoner is herded indoors for more questions...
...form of frustration, no kind of rage, can compare to the feelings of a Manhattanite stuck in traffic. He taps his feet, pounds his fist against the windowpane, vows to move to Colorado, and wishes he could jump out of his conveyance with a ray gun, cutting a deadly path through the surrounding metal wilderness of trucks, buses and cars. Ray guns, so far, are out; but there is an escape machine that a small, hardy band of New Yorkers are using to beat the traffic nightmare: the bicycle...
...another Kiplingesque amalgam: the time of the play is 1925, but Victoria has not yet relinquished the throne of England). So passive a character is Gay that the three soldiers can erase his individuality altogether--originally weak and insignificant, and a pacifist, he is made to join their machine gun unit to replace a man whose absence would expose the soldiers as temple robbers. Given the missing man's identification card, he becomes a ferocious super-hero who captures a mountain fort with five idiots. Anyone can be molded; no one is unique: Mann ist mann. (The dangers of attempting...
Hotheaded Kids. In the cockpit, Oquendo braced himself against the closed door, tapped Flight Engineer Philip Knudsen menacingly with his gun whenever anyone reached for a switch without explanation. Pilot Buchanan nursed a double worry: the Cuban air force might attack because he was out of the normal Havana approach corridor ("They have some hot airplanes there with hotheaded kids flying them," he reported later), and the gunman might start shooting if any passengers tried to storm the door. He got Oquendo's permission to make one laconic announcement on the plane's public-address system: "Ladies...