Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Caribbean republic, he spent one long evening with President Jacobo Arbenz and cabled Washington: "If he isn't a Communist, he'll do until a better one comes along." When the anti-Arbenz pressure exploded into revolution last year, Peurifoy, sport-shirted and packing a pistol, maneuvered the rival revolutionary chieftains into an agreement and averted a nasty civil war. As the U.S. saluted the ouster of Guatemala's Communists as a major victory, ambitious Jack Peurifoy was off to Bangkok to succeed "Wild Bill" Donovan as Ambassador to Thailand. There he made fast friends with...
...Dulles at his news conference: "Chou En-lai's speech went further in the renunciation of force than anything he had said before." Dulles, who had not yet heard Colonel Arnold's story, added hopefully that there was some evidence that the Chinese Communists had"laid their pistol down," and that "it might be possible to clear up now some of these practical matters between us." Knock on the U.N. Door. The man sent to investigate was Kansas-born U. (for Ural) Alexis Johnson, 46, an old Far Eastern hand now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia...
What emerges is a surprisingly good movie. Aircraft Worker Jack Kelly stops to pick up a hitchhiker (Vince Edwards) and the next moment is looking into the business end of a pistol. Following orders, he turns off on a side road where two other badmen join forces with the first. Disgusted by the emptiness of Kelly's wallet, the leader, John Cassavetes (who starred as a juvenile delinquent in ABC's memorable TV Crime in the Streets), wings a couple of shots past his head. The gang then attempts to sell Kelly's car, and failing...
...begun the best English fictional account of World War II. Waugh writes of the life and death of ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya and fought in Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous still flashes quick as a pistol. He can still write crushingly of spivvish parvenus and loony Hebridean lairds. But the formerly ferocious satirist continues to broaden and deepen the fascinating experiment, begun in Men at Arms, of doling out uncertain portions of esteem and even affection to such characters as share his 18th century Tory...
...police picked up Casselli, who also confessed and corroborated Home's story. One of the gang leaders, Policeman Womack, was killed in an unexplained boat explosion last summer. But Balma, 27, was still on the force. He was called in off his beat, stripped of his badge and pistol, suspended from the force and charged with robbery. Reporter Wood saw it all, wrote the story, gave the Daily News a clean beat over the Herald. She also scored a clean beat over her husband; he is the Herald's crime specialist...