Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time the party set out for the National Gallery, more than 1,000 other guests had been jammed, black-tied and begowned, into the West Sculpture Hall. There the painting, encased in bulletproof glass, hung waiting for the official introduction. Most people couldn't see a thing except other people. The guests shuffled grumpily. Women slipped off their toe-squeezing high-heeled shoes, and one Southern Senator asked his wife if she wanted him to "go up and shake hands" with Lisa. Red Cross aides took their positions and waited gravely for the Gallery to be declared a disaster...
...prestige race is the Hang Seng (Eternal Growth) Bank, which last week opened a 22-story building that is even taller than the Peking-controlled Bank of China-which was deliberately built a few feet higher than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof glass counters, the new Hang Seng building is an aluminum-and-glass monument to the ability of Chinese businessmen to ride out shifting political tides. In 30 tumultuous years. Hang Seng has grown from a modest gold changer with capital of $21,000 to Hong Kong's biggest Chinese...
...four months, they heard 1,350,000 words of testimony. The crowd expected to hear first a detailed, legalistic defense of Israel's right to try Eichmann. Instead, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau (like his two colleagues a refugee from Nazi Germany) ordered Eichmann to attention in his glass, bulletproof cage, and bluntly told the accused: "The court finds you guilty...
Tanks Face Tanks. Next day, while hundreds of West Berliners watched anxiously, tension mounted. Irwin Firestone. Russian-speaking liaison officer on the staff of the Provost Marshal, moved through Checkpoint Charlie in a blue Taunus, escorted by three Jeeps filled with troops wearing bulletproof vests, while tanks idled their engines at the white line that marked the border. "I hope they are not going to start shooting," said a youthful Vopo. After a five-minute trip, Firestone returned, flashed his headlights in a signal, was again escorted by Jeeps to West Berlin...
...seven weeks killed eleven cops and 98 Algerians. As a countermeasure the government clamped a 7 p.m. curfew on the Algerian cafes, where F.L.N. leaders hang out. Algerians also were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew. Algerians, who theoretically enjoy the same civil rights as Frenchmen, protested that they were subjected to a form of apartheid as virulent as South Africa's-and seizing on that...