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Died. Gail Neal, 29, California tennis-club attendant; of a .45-cal. bullet wound in the head, shortly after which her estranged husband, Actor Tom Neal, 51, the man who hospitalized Franchot Tone ("I was on him like a cat") in their 1951 brawl over Actress Barbara Payton, was booked on suspicion of murder; in Palm Springs...
...Canyon of the Andes - handsome, dashing, and almost too lucky to be true. Since 1962, he has survived seven assassination at tempts: four by gunfire, three by bombs. Last year, just after President Victor Paz Estenssoro refused to accept Barrientos as a vice-presidential candidate, an assailant's bullet ricocheted off the U.S. pilot wings on the general's jacket, causing a slight wound. The incident made Barrientos such a hero that Paz was forced to accept him as a running mate. Last week Bolivians witnessed a rerun...
...even before his bullet-ripped body went to its grave, Malcolm X was being sanctified. Negro leaders called him "brilliant," said he had recently "moderated" his views, blamed his assassination on "the white power structure" or, in the case of Martin Luther King, on a "society sick enough to express dissent with murder." Malcolm's death, they agreed, was a setback to the civil rights movement...
...with the shotgun was hit in the left leg by a bullet from the pistol of a Malcolm X bodyguard. Crippled, he was caught by Malcolm X's furious followers, knocked down, kicked and stomped on. Cops rescued him, took him to a hospital, and charged him with homicide. He was Thomas Hagan, alias Talmadge Hayer, a New Jersey thug with a dreary police record...
Added Pressure. The Army calls its new hospital MUST, from Medical Unit Self-Contained Transportable. Impressed observers could suggest only one potential drawback. What would happen under a strafing attack? Would a few bullet holes cause leaks in the walls and let the whole pneumatic construction collapse? The Army had not overlooked the obvious; added air pressure can compensate for most holes...