Word: rears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matswanists to leave peacefully, then attacked them with clubs and tear gas. Gradually, as they fell back, about 200 of the Matswanists were pinned against a wall, and would not move. The cops grabbed them one by one and hauled them away in trucks. But when they reached the rear ranks of the crowd, police saw a melancholy sight: 36 Matswanists, including one woman and a child, had been pressed back, temporarily blinded by the tear gas. Crushed against one another, they had been smothered to death against the wall...
...lighter than the Ferrari (1,100 Ibs. v. 1,500 Ibs.). As one driver explains, "you can drive the thing out of a corner instead of having to change down," and Coopers can zip away from the Ferraris coming out of the turns. With its engine mounted in the rear, the Cooper is a bare 12 ft. long (Ferrari length: 14 ft.. 9 in.). Since there is no long driveshaft, the driver can sit far down in the frame and give the car added stability...
...Tattered Dress, on their home projector in the grey stucco mess hall. While they were absorbed in the first reel, six Communist terrorists (who obviously had cased the place well) crept out of the darkness and surrounded the mess hall. Two positioned a French MAT submachine gun in the rear window, two pushed gun muzzles through the pantry screen, the other two went to the front of the building to cover the Vietnamese guard. When Sergeant Ovnand snapped on the lights to change the first reel, the terrorists opened fire...
Along the highway, giant manufacturers such as Raytheon, RCA, Avco and Sylvania are hard at work on missile and space systems. Smaller firms make components and instruments-some of them so tiny that a week's production fits into the rear of a station wagon. Many of them are so sophisticated that even company brass are hard-put to explain how they operate. From 128's small companies come devices that can read print optically, or probe space to guide a missile...
Died. William Francis Dietrich, 65, plucky rear admiral (ret.) who, as captain of the cargo ship U.S.S. Bellatrix, won the Navy Cross by repeatedly defying Japanese air attack to carry supplies to the besieged marines at Guadalcanal; of pneumonia; in Bethesda...