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...newly developed recoilless pistol that fires a tiny rocket with twice the wallop of a .45, is inexpensive to produce (as low as 850 each) and simple to operate. Loaded with six 13-mm. rounds, each an inch and a half long, the gun ignites the rocket's solid fuel to fire the projectile toward the target...
...holdouts" have often stopped a bulldozer in its tracks. Some simply are waiting to see how high the developer will go. Others, like Mrs. Sondek, hang on to their land with the tenacity of Barbara Frietchies for their own very special reasons (Mrs. Sondek claimed that she needed every inch of the plot...
Bargains at Tiffany's! The emporium that has seldom had a sale in its 128-year history closed its banklike doors for a day to reduce price tags on the 172,415 baubles in its stores in Manhattan, Houston, San Francisco and Beverly Hills. A 128-carat, inch-wide un-mounted diamond will be reduced from $1,000,000 to $900,000; a $4.50 silver key ring will drop to $4. These cuts -and millions of others across the U.S.- were brought about by the repeal this week of most U.S. excise taxes and the reduction of others...
...most members of the class of 1965, the McCarthy era meant long afternoons at home after school spent in rapt if uncomprehending attention to the deep-voiced, dark-jowled man rasping out from a 12-inch television screen. For many, it was a time when parents' voices were lowered and heads shaken with resignation; only a few seniors today remember real personal tragedy and envisage clearly the scars caused by public persecution...
British Columnist Malcolm Muggeridge is also appalled. While admitting that Bond's "instant appeal to attractive women, his dash and daring and smartness combined with toughness, make him every inch a hero of our time," he also notes that "insofar as one can focus on so shadowy and unreal a character, he is utterly despicable: obsequious to his superiors, pretentious in his tastes, callous and brutal in his ways, with strong undertones of sadism, and an unspeakable cad in his relations with women, toward whom sexual appetite represents the only approach...