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...found inside it a mere $600 in cash and kind. Poor old Bart. He was born a century too soon. In 1959 he would have found, in nearly every parlor in the land, a box from which any man with enough strength to pull a hair trigger and enough chin to hold a hat string can apparently remove as much as a million dollars a year...
...border shift is a quick method of transferring a gun from one hand to the other. The road agent's spin was used when a man was forced to surrender his gun. As he handed it to his enemy, butt first, he slipped his forefinger through the trigger-guard, at the last minute spun the butt back into his palm and started chucking lead...
Sigmund returned to Europe from Ceylon, with steps in the trigger-happy Near East ("It was Suez time"). The Air Force then extended an invitation ("I had a ROTC commission from college"), and he spend a year and a half ("Just long enough to learn to ski") with Air Force Intelligence in Germany and France...
...Tragically Unprepared." "There is, however, one circumstance which could give rise to a world war that no one wanted. If we, through the appearance of division, through weakness and lack of purpose, encourage the Communists to attempt some new act of aggression, this may well trigger off a war, and a war for which we are tragically unprepared. The hazards of flexibility and vacillation are far greater than those of strict adherence to right principles...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26--Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), warning that the Soviets may trigger a war over Berlin, urged today an intensive 90-day program to alert the nation for any eventuality...