Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nick of time. After interrogating the five suspects, the police indicated that the triggerman was Navy Captain Robert Poinard, 37, who was held for questioning along with his blonde young wife. According to the police supposition, Captain Poinard was to use a carbine with a telescopic sight to kill De Gaulle while he was inspecting the honor guard in the cobbled Ecole Militaire courtyard. Two other officers were also in custody, but the oddest of the suspects was the alleged ringleader, Mme. Paule Rousselot de Liffiac, 55, a pipe-smoking, low-salaried English translator at the school, the mother...
Minimum Pay. "To me," said former New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton writing in the British weekly Spectator, "the saddest spectacle of the newspaper strike has been the sight of so many of my old friends on television, head up, eyes front, body sagging, attempting spontaneity in the pronouncement of words they composed two days ago and have read over seven times since." One of Columnist Kempton's old friends was Kempton himself, and he did not like either the sight or the experience...
Biggest theater of operations for land-grabbing hucksters is Arizona, where some 630 so-called subdivisions have sprung up during the past 18 months and 60,000 lots have been sold, mostly sight unseen. Determined to get federal intervention to stop what may blow up into a national scandal, Arizona's Real Estate Commissioner J. Fred Talley recently testified before a U.S. Senate special committee, and concentrated his fire on an Arizona desert development called Lake Mead Rancheros...
...Virgin." The priest accepts it gratefully: "How good of you, my son." The jeweler walks briskly out of the church, clutching a fat check from the groom and confident that, even if it bounces, the priest will honorably render unto Caesar. But the instant he is out of sight, the "priest" grabs the "bride," the "groom" grabs the diamonds, and they all make tracks for the nearest fence...
...Reclamation Treatment. Under drugs and with his eyelids clipped open, he is forced to watch an endless succession of films showing Japanese and Nazi tortures while Beethoven supplies the sound track. Then, conditioned like Pavlov's dog, Alex is released on society, guaranteed to vomit at the sight of violence or the sound of Beethoven. As one of his brainwashing group observes, "He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice." The experiment fails when Alex goes into a frenzy after hearing some Mozart, leaps from a window and knocks...