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...Leader Stewart Aitken-Cade, "to snatch weapons from the Communists and use them against them. If undemocratic methods are necessary, I will be the least democratic of all.'' The honorable members rapped their desks in well-bred applause, then began debating a drastic series of bills to slap down the blacks even harder. Among them: a "Preventive Detention Act" which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without the approval...
...sight. To learn the quick draw with this blunderbuss took a lot of practice, and the man who could fire it accurately beyond 20 ft. was rare. Nevertheless, the best of the gunsharks-with the help of sawed barrels, tied triggers, shifted grips, lowered hammers and greased holsters-could slap leather and spill five shots, all in less than a second. (The modern record is claimed by a Denver butcher named Jim-no kin to Matt -Dillon: draw and shoot in twelve-hundredths of a second.) Most of them, besides, carried a "stingy gun" and were masters of the border...
...sure to put pressure on competitors to announce definite plans for a small car. Only the day before the Ford announcement, Chrysler President Lester ("Tex") Colbert revealed that Chrysler has already spent $40 million to develop a six-cylinder small car with a 105-110-in. wheelbase. With a slap at Chevy's rear-engine small car, Colbert said the engine in Chrysler's car will be in front, "where it belongs." But Colbert emphasized that Chrysler will not decide whether to produce its cars until "late summer," added that he would withhold public Announcement as long...
...months, warning of a coming coal crisis, the High Authority urged member nations to cut back production. The Belgians largely ignored pleas to modernize their mines, close marginal producers. Germany's Ludwig Erhard resisted any imposition of production quotas. He preferred to slap domestic tariffs on imports from outside the area (including $4.76 a ton on U.S. coal) and higher taxes on other fuels to boost coal sales. Italy and Luxembourg want to continue buying cheaper U.S. coal, even if this is considered disloyal to surplus-ridden Community producers. The French hinted that they might not obey orders...
...raring, tearing two-hour speech ostensibly addressed to the electorate of Moscow's Kalinin Constituency, Khrushchev forcefully reminded the world that he could claw as well as slap backs in raucous good fellowship. Angered by the discovery that Britain's Harold Macmillan had come to Moscow with no intention of repeating Neville Chamberlain's performance at Munich, Khrushchev flatly laid down his uncompromising terms on Germany, in such a way as to demonstrate that he was not interested in reasonable accommodations. In doing so, he also inflicted a historic humiliation on Macmillan and paraded his contempt...