Word: three-year-old
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...latest ploy of the gun magazines is to involve the whole family. "I weaned my boys on armadillo shooting," began one article. "Teach 'Em Young, Teach 'Em Right," was the title of a Guns & Ammo piece, accompanied by an illustration of a three-year-old girl getting instructions in the use of a revolver. This family concern is reflected in advertising. "Easy as pie," says an ad in Gun World promoting hand loading. A comely matron is shown holding a plateful of cartridges as if it were a pie, while her three admiring daughters look on. "Today," continued...
When H. Rap Brown was in diapers and Stokely Carmichael a three-year-old toddler, a group of fledgling Negro flyers shattered tradition in an unsuccessful attempt to integrate the all-white officers' club at Selfridge Field near Detroit. That was in 1944. Last week a veteran of that long-ago sit-in challenged today's hot gospelers of Black Power...
Chapter IV. Forthwith the couple flew off to the former colonies, leaving their three-year-old son behind in the care of a nurse. In New York, there was a lawyer who instructed them in the customs of the land, including the testing of blood, the taking out of a wedding license, and the finding of a justice of the peace, in this case one named Allen E. Saaf who, knowing in the ways of this world, said: "Because of all the secrecy, I had an idea it was to be an important wedding...
Whole new technologies such as nylon, the first all-synthetic fiber, and neoprene, the first U.S. commercial synthetic rubber, have sprung from Du Pont's cornucopian test tubes. Last year 175 manufacturers built the tops of 12 million pairs of shoes with Du Pont's three-year-old synthetic Corfam, which is supposed to look, feel and "breathe" like natural leather. Early this year, after twelve years and $8,000,000 in research, the company invaded the rich pharmaceutical field by marketing an antiflu drug named Symmetrel, which can be taken orally as either a pill or syrup...
...reflationary measures aimed at perking up the economy. Mandatory deposits on new cars are to be lowered from 25% to 20%; finance companies can increase lending capacity by 10%; the building sector, hardest hit of all, will be stimulated by a variety of credit improvements. In addition, a three-year-old price freeze on industrial products will be reduced and export incentives increased. If exports increase, these measures may help bring the budget closer to balance-a hope to which the French always cling. Analysts reckon that the deficit will grow to $1.2 billion by year's end against...