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...BALLOU. The funniest if not the fastest gun in the West is Lee Marvin, a double-barreled delight in his portrayals of two desperadoes, one determined to help and one to hinder the schemes of a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda...
...With its pistol grip and nubby barrel, the instrument looks like the handy ray gun with which Buck Rogers and Wilma used to zap Killer Kane. It is actually a space-age wrench. Cordless and battery-powered, it was designed by Martin Marietta as a zero-reaction power tool to be used by astronauts for turning nuts and bolts in the weightless conditions of space...
...most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...
...better to shoot Viet Cong with, declared Madame Nhu, who knew only too well the uses that the V.C. were making of their own female stalwarts. One such is Kim Loan, a pistol-packing mama commanding a guerrilla company near Saigon, who occasionally slips into the town of Tan An for a hairdo. Other tools are the thousands of fishwives and fruitsellers in the market places of South Viet Nam's cities. Their vending stalls provide handy platforms for picking up information or passing propaganda and military messages...
Down in the Mekong Delta, the "Tiger Lady" of the 44th Battalion is Commander Le Van Dan's wife. Though the mother of seven, she has the rank of a master sergeant, totes a .45 pistol, often accompanies the battalion in battle-where she has won three medals for combat bravery...