Gazprom, navy in American knight's move

You have to be older than US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) to remember the first episodes of the greatest Western ever to be broadcast on US radio and television. That was Have Gun, Will Travel, beginning in 1957.

Over the following six years, in 225 episodes, the pock-marked Richard Boone, dressed in black on horseback and at table, played Paladin, a classically educated, multilingual gentleman who preferred reading poetry to cards and who recommended settling conflicts by negotiation. When that failed, however, he used a hair-trigger Colt revolver, a concealed derringer and a Winchester rifle to dispose of his adversaries.

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