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Early last spring, hungry for sport and eager to renew old acquaintance, mustachioed Davo Davidson buckled on his two trusty .45s, polished up his long-idle automatic rifle, snipped for Africa and offered Kenya's British authorities his services for the capture of his old buddy. His only condition: that he be allowed to go after Kimathi alone, without benefit of British troops or native police. The authorities accepted the offer and wished Davo luck...
...rest of the scenario sounded as if it had been written by Mack Sennett. At the main gate, three startled marine guards jumped for safety as the getaway car shot through at 60 m.p.h. They hauled out their .45s, but the pieces were empty; the clips were in their belts (base regulations to avoid accidents). The police telephoned ahead to set up a roadblock. They were seconds too late; the green Oldsmobile got away. A few minutes later, a patrolman answered a fire alarm on a back road five miles from the base. It was the Oldsmobile, abandoned and burning...
...bomber flies it is 205 miles from Fort Worth to Barksdale Field in Shreveport, La. Last week the Air Force announced that one of its RB-45s (North American's four-jet light bomber, which ordinarily has a top speed of about 550 m.p.h.) had covered the distance in a cool 13 min. 50 sec. Captain John J. Mackey had accidentally picked up a lift from the jet airstream, the high-velocity wind that zigzags unpredictably through the substratospheric sky (TIME, Oct. 16). His average speed for the flight: 886 m.p.h., a figure which the Air Force modestly admitted...
...time went by, Hangman Woods was more & more disturbed by the way the German people began to look at him. He took to packing two .45s, remarked loudly, "If some German thinks he wants to get me, he better make sure he does it with his first shot, because I was raised with a pistol in my hand." Once, just after chow in an Army mess, he turned violently ill, was certain the German cooks had poisoned him. He was delighted when the Army returned him to the U.S., felt better still last March when it shipped him half...
...hunted bustards with jeep-mounted .50s and .45s . . . None of us ever saw them fly. They walk or run their 20 or 30 miles daily to a water hole. When cornered, they courageously face away from you, elevate their posteriors to the proper altitude, and zero in ... To us Desert Rats, they were known by a name other than, but somewhat similar to, bustard...