Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berliners are forever finding new ways to frustrate Communist rules and punch holes in the ugly Red Wall. The latest stunt is a lot more expensive than leaping over barbed wire but a lot safer than dodging Vopo bullets. All it takes is a holiday train ticket to another Iron Curtain country...
...drama continued to unfold, there were rumors that it was all a publicity stunt or some other sort of hoax, and indeed that was one of the first avenues of investigation probed by the FBI. Then, too, there was the matter of Frank Sr.'s genial flirtation with a kind of shadow Clan of his own, consisting of high-echelon hoods. No one figured out the connection, if any, but many were prepared to view the kidnaping as something less than the real thing. They were wrong...
Four days after Venezuela's election, the F.A.L.N. terrorists released U.S. Army Colonel James K. Chenault, whom they had kidnaped as an election publicity stunt. During Chenault's confinement, TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia was offered a secret interview with Chenault, met his F.A.L.N. source as agreed, standing outside a Caracas movie theater holding a newspaper and a swizzle stick. Garcia was led to a car; his eyes were taped, and he was driven to a hideout somewhere in Caracas. He found Chenault, blindfolded and dressed in light yellow pajamas. The colonel said he had received "reasonably good treatment...
...United States presently plans to funnel $20 billion and untold man-hours of its best scientists into an effort to put an American on the moon as soon as possible. Sending a man to the earth's nearest neighbor, however, is little more than a huge publicity stunt. The same amount of information could be gained simply by landing an instrument package on the moon--a far easier and less expensive project. Also, such a venture would not need to endanger the life of an American astronaut in a program forced to sacrifice safety for the sake of speed...
...they finally fell down. Every evening, outside Jack the Barber's one-chair barbershop on Bunker Hill Street, scores of youngsters gather to ogle the neighborhood heroes, talking football inside. They wheedle and whine until Star Townie Halfback Nippy Nolan agrees-as he always does-to perform the stunt for which he is famous all over Charlestown. Crouching low taking a deep breath, he leaps up and cracks his head against Jack the Barber's ceiling just as hard as he can. Says Nippy: "I just love contact, I guess...