Word: bulletproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ascertaining which big buildings present the greatest risks along a proposed presidential motorcade route. It has equipped the presidential limousine with an optional bubble top that can deflect anything except a shot coming in at a 90° angle (the bubble top that Kennedy rejected was not bulletproof...
...Mistake. Three weeks ago, "Bulletproof" Perpétuo's luck finally failed. His downfall began when a convicted murderer, "Horseface" Manuel Moreira, got a parole "by mistake" and, once out of jail, shot a close colleague of Perpétuo's. Enraged by the bureaucratic sloppiness that released Horseface in the first place, Perpétuo dropped everything and went after the killer. Though the rest of the force was stymied, he had a good lead within two days. But while he was waiting in a bar for Horseface to show up, two cops from another district wandered...
Died. Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva, 51, better known as Bulletproof Perpétuo, Rio de Janeiro's greatest detective, who for 30 charmed years outdrew, outpunched and outtalked the most fearsome bandidos in Rio's slums; of a bullet wound inflicted by a jealous fellow officer who shot first, at point-blank range; in a dingy...
...grey clouds of South American winter hung low over La Paz as the blue, bulletproof Cadillac pulled up to the newly constructed grade school. Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped out, strode into the crowded schoolyard and took his place in line. "We are here to vote," he said simply. After a 25-minute wait, Paz dropped his pink ballot into the box, dipped a finger into a cup of red ink to prove he had voted, then drove off to attend to other affairs of state...
...provincial villages, where local administrators have been beheaded by the Reds, but in Saigon. A few days before McNamara's arrival, police surprised two Viet Cong mining a bridge over which his car was to pass. Driving through the streets of the capital, McNamara was cloaked in a bulletproof jacket. It was, in a way, the most revealing aspect of his visit; never before had McNamara found it necessary to adopt such rigid measures in Saigon...