Word: slinging
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...impromptu (and anonymous) conversations on the air, Candid Mike's producer-narrator, Allen Funt, combs Manhattan street corners, hotels, doorsteps, restaurants-any spot where people meet and talk-with his tape recorder. He disguises the mike in a sling, as a hearing aid, hides it under his lapel or sets it on a pawnshop counter covered by a "for sale" sign...
...took the floor to warn his colleagues: "Any lapse in our purpose or resources . . . will be an open invitation to Soviet Russia to fill the vacuum. . . . We dare not present to the world a picture of Uncle Sam with a chip on each shoulder and both arms in a sling...
Professor Elliott makes himself a mighty strategic position from which to sling low punches at the Chicago Student Conference and the International Union of Students. If you dare to disagree, it makes you either a "Red" or worse yet "naive." But too much honest work and thought and hope have gone into the Chicago and the Prague Conferences, a little of it mine, to allow Elliott to get away with an attack that is ignorant, prejudiced, and untrue...
...Bear's biggest trouble is in the quarterback spot where little field general Eddie Finn, 165 lb. sling-shot passer has been so effective. Finn has a painful back injury, received just before the Yale game, that will probably keep him out of the lineup this week as well. Hank Pilote, Finn's understudy showed up well in last week's Yale slaughter, but was injured and may see only limited action...
...across from the small, grey Ruskin-Gothic Peruvian Embassy. They knew that it was giving asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even the rifleman's three assistants...