Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director Ralph Locher. The next step, in 1962, was election to the state legislature, where he quickly established himself as a prolific, catholic lawmaker. He helped draft legislation establishing a state department of urban affairs, wrote a new mental-health services act, helped enact stiffer traffic regulations, promoted a gun-control bill, worked for tougher air-pollution controls, and was the only Democrat to sponsor a bill giving the Governor power to send the National Guard into a city before a riot situation gets out of hand...
Hour of the Gun shows an eternity of sand, rock, and trees--punctuated from time to time by a mustache on horseback...
...laugh once. The prosecutor asks Ryan what position one of his thugs holds. Ryan answers, He's my scientific cattle breeder. Why does he wear a gun for his work? the prosecutor demands. Robards pipes up: "Maybe he has to force the cattle!" One yuk for 110 minutes of squirming...
...group of men walked through a U.S. company's command post, one of them with a flashlight in his hand. "Douse that light," snarled a U.S. sergeant major, at the same time noticing that the offender was wearing black pajamas and carrying a Chinese AK-47 gun. But the group kept right on walking, and it was several startled seconds before everybody started firing. Four of the Viet Cong were captured, one by a young lieutenant who hit him with a football body block and a right to the jaw. Later that same night, the Viet Cong massed among...
...South Vietnamese flag, fluttered in the breeze. Some 25,000 troops lined the streets leading to the square in front of the Assembly, and in the reviewing stands waited the representatives of 22 nations, headed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. As a 21-gun salute from a howitzer boomed across the capital, Thieu and Ky, clad in business suits, arrived in twin Mercedes 300s to be sworn...