Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Controversy still storms over one possible item of shelter equipment; guns (TIME, Aug. 18). Many of the million or more private shelters already prepared by individual citizens are stocked with weapons, and many of the diggers are prepared to use them, if necessary, on intruders who might try to join them. The Rev. L.C. McHugh, an editor of the Jesuit magazine America, recently stirred the coals of the argument by declaring that people who attempt to storm their neighbors' shelters are nothing more than "unjust aggressors" and should be "repelled with whatever means will effectively deter their assault." Last...
Deep in Act II. Let It Ride! breaks out of the starting gate with a funny, frenetic song-and-dance item, Just an Honest Mistake, in which a stageful of cops update A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One. The rest of the production has about as much zip as Churchill Downs in December...
...result, the Army was slow in developing the weapons for its historic mission: fighting on the ground. Item: the Army needed only three years to create the Jupiter missile, but required twelve years to develop the M-14 rifle. Item: the Army needed nine years to develop the M-60 machine gun, which only now is beginning to replace World War II models. Item: the Army, after seven years of work, is just now beginning to get the M-60 tank, the answer to the Russians' T-54, which appeared in 1952. But Army tank experts fully expect that...
...only 120 Ibs. The new Lockheed JetStar, a four-jet executive plane, carries as standard equipment a drag chute that weighs only 20 Ibs. Lockheed spokesmen believe that a JetStar chute has yet to be used, but they say bluntly: "The purpose is safety. It's an insurance item for stopping. First you have the brakes, then thrust reversal, then the drag chute. It's a good little thing to have around...
...depends on detail. Items: Would Western access be guaranteed by the Russians themselves, or only by the East German puppets? Item: Would Berlin's safety be additionally guaranteed through the presence of U.N. agencies there? Item: Would the West manage to retain, even theoretically, the goal of ultimate German unification...