Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggestions of its own. As it out lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped up by low-flying helicopters to space-age techniques in which an ac complice somehow supplies a back-borne jet pack that would enable a convict to clear the wall in one jump...
...assault. This, in a country with a population of 33.5 million, works out to one murder per 3,720 people; in Japan, the ratio is one murder per 44,190. Legally, Filipinos own more firearms (at least 300,000) than the entire military and police forces. Illegally, they pack 300,000 "loose" or unlicensed weapons, ranging from zip guns to submachine guns and antiaircraft cannon. The situation, says the Manila New Evening News, is "a stupefying travesty of what is supposed to be the majesty...
Working with space-age circuitry and components, engineers have designed new snoopers that are marked improvements on the cigarette-pack transmitters, the spike mikes and the phone taps of a few years ago (TIME, March 6, 1964). Today's bugs rival the imaginative equipment of James Bond novels or the TV fantasies of The Man from U.N.C.L.E...
...moonscapes of rock lava topped by the snow-capped peaks of Mauna Kea (13,796 ft.) and still-active Mauna Loa (13,680 ft.). Middle-aged Maui is dominated by the rugged crater of dormant Haleakala (House of the Sun). At its rim nestles a Defense Department observatory; the pack trip to the floor of the crater is like spending a day on the moon...
...serve God wittily, in the tangle of the mind." Being the sharpest lawyer in the kingdom, he darts through a loophole in Henry's law. "I will not take the oath," he announces gravely to Thomas Cromwell (Leo Mc-Kern), the leader of the King's pack of political jackals. "I will not tell you why I will not." Cromwell: "This silence is denial!" More: "The maxim of the law is, 'Silence gives consent.' " Cromwell: "Is that what the world construes?" More: "The world must construe according to its wits. The court must construe according...