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...regime needed to keep a tight grip on the country. Pressure on the White House from both Athens md the Pentagon for full resumption of arms aid increased with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. More recently, the Soviets have shipped to Bulgaria several hundred of their latest tanks, which outgun Greece's 15-to 20-year-old American-made M-47 and M48 tanks. The continuing Middle East crisis and he growing Soviet naval presence in he Mediterranean have also influenced Washington toward a full resumption of shipments of heavy arms to Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece: The Symbols of Acceptance | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women who loved him and abducted those who did not. At the end, in a house surrounded by cops with the Army arriving, he imagined he could outgun them all and escape to impose his will again on other...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer The Testament of Dr. Mabuse at 2 Divinity Avenue tonight | 12/17/1969 | See Source »

...Bravo (Armada; Warner) is a major ($3,000,000) attempt by Hollywood to outgun the six-gunslingers who have recently been pumping the TV audience full of lead (TIME, March 30). The trouble is, Producer-Director Howard Hawks has put too many shooting irons in the fire. The picture has not one but three heroes (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson); they divide the sympathies and overpopulate the screen. For another thing, the film lasts almost as long (2 hr. 21 min.) as five TV westerns laid end to end-and it makes about as little consecutive sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...refuel-evidently on their way to Montevideo. The 31,100-ton battleship Barham, and the French battleship Dunkergue-it and the Renown two of five Allied ships which can both outrun and outgun German pocket battleships-and the 10,000-ton cruiser Cumberland were rumored to be waiting just over the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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