Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying jet fighter flashing along at supersonic speeds. Once Redeye "finds" the target, it flies into the exhaust and explodes. Most impressive aspect of Redeye: it weighs only 28 Ibs. loaded, can be hauled over the roughest battlefield terrain and can be fired at strafing jets from the shoulder of a single infantryman. Scheduled for production in a few months, Redeye will be a handy new addition for the Army and the Marine Corps...
...present trends continue. In Africa-Zanzibar, like Cuba, is now a jumping-off place for further penetration of that great continent. In Latin America-Cuba is gone, Bolivia is going, Brazil is on the brink, not to mention the mess in Panama. In Europe-we gave the cold shoulder to De Gaulle, and now he gives the warm hand to Mao Tse-tung...
...French cooking, Egon showed a fine flair for mousse-making-whenever he could be persuaded to come in out of the snow. At 18, he won all three Alpine events at the Austrian junior championships, and experts began calling him "the new Toni Sailer." But then he dislocated a shoulder on the eve of the 1960 Olympics...
...lunch instead?' 'What lunch?' he said. 'It's 6 o'clock.' Anyone can see that in the last four or five years I was quieting down, getting richer and quieter in my work: this was sculpture beginning to tap me on the shoulder...
Died. Joe Weatherly, 41, national stock-car racing champion for 1962 and 1963 (last year's earnings: $58,110), a 17-year veteran who was known as "The Clown Prince" for his practical jokes, scorned the shoulder harness 80% of stock-car racing drivers wear, saying "when my time comes, no piece of rag's gonna save me"; of head and chest injuries inflicted when his 1964 Mercury crashed into a retaining wall during a race; at Riverside, Calif...