Word: slingshot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members receive, free of charge, an I.S.A.D.P.M. identification card decorated with a red slingshot, symbolic of David's battle with Goliath. They also get a year's subscription to Matusow's anticomputer newsletter, which he plans to start publishing soon. For 6s., they can get a copy of his 125-page The Beast of Business, a handbook of guerrilla tactics for computer haters that might have been conceived by Che Guevara...
...Youth Alliance's headquarters in Roxbury, I began talking with three Negro boys. Larry told me he was marking time in a general course that did not prepare him for college or a job. As George cut a piece of leather out of the seat to make a slingshot, he said he hated school and everything run by older people. Paul, embarrassed by the conversation, admitted softly that he went to "an educational joke, Boston Trade School...
...Nazi medico imbued with Yankee sportsmanship, reveals that he became a menace only to serve mankind. In the frayed formula ending, Writer Seaton has sabotaged his outlandish melodrama, like a man who strides into battle armed with a formidable secret weapon and hobbles out brandishing a mere slingshot...
...stilettos. But the law, which has no visible effects on criminals, requires hard-to-get police permits for pistols, even when they are kept at home. Flatly forbidden is the mere possession of any billy, blackjack, bludgeon, bomb, bombshell, firearm silencer, machine gun, metal knuckles, sandbag, sandclub or "slungshot" (slingshot). The arsenal is so well-stocked that choice is inevitably confusing. Arlene Del Fava, along with many another New Yorker, has decided that from now on there is only one side arm that will keep her safe from both cops and robbers-"a hatpin like grandmother used to carry...
Johnny McCluskey's slingshot arm will probably get a good workout as the Crimson seeks its first Ivy League victory of the season. The J.V.'s have beaten Massachusetts, Rutgers, and Newport Naval Station, but lost to Brown in their only conference game to date...