Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aggie keeps her staff lively by occasionally firing blanks from a desk-drawer pistol, keeps the boys happy by throwing city-desk beer parties, keeps them loyal by sticking up for them. Her style has brought happy results; the Herald-Examiner is thriving, and the paper is among the Hearst chain's few solid moneymakers...
...communal marital privileges. When the terrified bride decamps on her wedding night and rejoins the gold-guarding trio, the serious shooting begins. The good-guy bad-guy struggle is dramatically tangled and intensified by the fact that Scott and Starr have intended all along to either sweet-talk or pistol-silence McCrea out of the gold...
Died. Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, 60, onetime St. Louis newspaperman who joined Hollywood's stable of screenwriters in 1928, but left in 1955 to put TV's horse opera The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp high on the Trendex trail; by his own hand (pistol); in Oxnard, Calif...
...their own organizations than with each other. Chief spokesman for the S.A.O. was blond Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, former student leader and a longtime fascist ideologue. In one argument with another S.A.O. leader, ex-Colonel Yves Godard, who insisted on a die-hard policy. Susini pulled out a pistol and threatened to kill him, and then ordered Godard out of Algeria...
...overall economic aid&3151;the benefits to the five recipients have been huge. In some ways, the Point Four program in Israel was the most successful (although the country had the unusual advantages of large private help from the U.S. and skilled immigrants from Europe). Best-remembered achievement: a pistol-packing cowpuncher from Texas, Bart McMenomey, was one of several U.S. experts who helped raise cattle production from 4,500 head in 1954 to 70,000 today. McMenomey so impressed Israeli cowboys that they learned to play the banjo, labeled the huts on their kibbutzim (collective farms) in Galilee "Saloon...