Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sulzberger is one columnist who is not badgering the President to make all his war aims crystal-clear. "A yard of adhesive tape stretched over the mouths of a dozen Administration leaders might prove an effective secret weapon," he has written. But while he believes that recent U.S. foreign policy has been based on "reasonable logic," he also feels that it has often been clumsily executed. "The content of great power policy must sometimes be blunt," he says. "Its style should always be burnished...
...Musliner and Rick Kolombatovich will tangle with a swarm of talented swordsmen in foil. Because only foils are used in New York high schools, competition in this weapon is usually stiffer than in sabre or epee. Columbia's Steve Weinstein and Bruno Santonocito and Penn's Steve Permut will tangle for first place...
...pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is preserved in Ford's Theater, now a Washington museum. The gun that killed Garfield is sous cloche in the Justice Department. The weapon that took McKinley's life is kept by a historical society in Buffalo, where he was shot. Last week the nation was assured that the 6.5-mm. Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy would not end up in a private collection or a public peep show...
John J. King, a Denver oilman and gun fancier, paid Oswald's widow Marina $10,000 for the rifle a year ago, promised an additional $35,000 on delivery, then sued to recover the weapon from federal authorities. In a Dallas courtroom, less than a mile from the stretch of road where the President was killed, U.S. Judge Joe E. Estes last week awarded the Federal Government permanent custody of the assassination rifle and the .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver with which Oswald killed Policeman J. D. Tippit. Both weapons, said the U.S. Justice Department, will thus be preserved...
...that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation. We can stay in Yemen for one, two, three, four or even five years." As for Israel, Nasser threatened a "deterrent war" if the country decides to go ahead with the development of an atomic weapon. In the same hot breath, Nasser also attacked Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba for daring to advocate Arab negotiation with Israel...