Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer afternoons spent plinking tin cans with a BB gun. Daisy is still the big name in BB guns, but the company is now preparing to market a jet-age air rifle that is definitely not for small boys. Almost as powerful as the standard .22-caliber rifle, the weapon is nearly recoilless, virtually jamproof, and fires bullets without cartridges, primer charge or powder. Daisy is confident that it will be the forerunner of a new generation of weapons for both civilian and military...
...second weapon is money. Croesus-rich Kuwait alone has nearly $3 billion deposited in British banks, figures that by withdrawing that much, it could topple the pound sterling. Even if the Kuwaitis switched their accounts to Swiss banks (at lower interest rates), the Swiss would simply deposit most of the money in London's City, which alone is equipped to handle the Arab world's huge deposits...
...third weapon is oil. The Arabs refuse to ship any of their crude to the U.S. or Britain. Is that a real problem? The U.S. gets only 3% of its oil from Arab lands, could easily make that up by pumping more from its underused Texas wells. And the Arabs' friend, Russia, has already offered to sell Britain as much oil as it needs. The threat of nationalization of U.S. and British oil properties also seemed hollow. Though Algeria confiscated 13 U.S. oil companies last week, U.S. oilmen were still operating fairly freely in Egypt. In Saudi Arabia...
Crime and public apathy toward it were on the rise in Indianapolis the night that Dr. Margaret Marshall, a 90-year-old retired psychologist and teacher, stepped from her doorway into a darkened street. Without warning, a mugger lashed out at her head with a blunt weapon and snatched her purse. When Dr. Marshall died of her injuries, the Indianapolis News was deluged with letters from infuriated women. Assistant Publisher Eugene S. Pulliam asked one of the paper's staffers, Margaret Moore, 56, to help 30 prominent civic-minded women to decide on a course of action...
Christian believes that the President suffered from overexposure during the Moyers days, and he points to various segments of Gallup polls that bear him out. Despite his familiarity with presidential thoughts and doings, Christian utters not one syllable more than the President wants him to. His main defensive weapon is simply to say that he is not going to talk about sensitive issues and then watch out for traps. Since he does not lose his temper, there are no pressroom incidents that get into the papers...