Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typical of the proud, stubborn, courageous Indira Gandhi that she hated to wear a bulletproof vest and rarely agreed to do so. Certainly she was a fatalist. The night before her death, she had told a large, enthusiastic crowd in Orissa's capital city, Bhubaneswar, "I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation...
...Salvadoran problem, which must be solved among Salvadorans in El Salvador." U.S. officials were not present at the La Palma talks, and according to a State Department analyst, Washington's suggestions to Duarte were limited to his personal security. Even then, the U.S. offer of a bulletproof vest for the President was turned down...
...photographs of his high school's production of Fiddler, Sabath looks almost the same as he does on stage at Kirkland House five years later. He wears the same rust vest and flannel shirt belonging to his father. Although the Tevye's of then and now may appear similar, Sabath's portrayal of them is not the same. "Since I had already learned the lines I was able to concentrate more on the character and what he was experiencing," Sabath notes...
...capacity for gentleness, and a tolerance for fantasy that might tax the average adult imagination. Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks...
...quick-draw justice played well on the 11 o'clock news. For off-duty Barfers, machismo was the drug of choice. One officer ignored his wife's plea to wear a bulletproof vest because his buddies might laugh. Another pasted a coroner's snapshot of a riddled body in his scrapbook. "Think of it," muses the author, "ten little hardball lawmen, shooting down Mexican bandits where they stand, out there in the cactus and rocks and tarantulas and scorpions ... If that wasn't a John Ford scenario, what the hell...