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...calculate that with a one-kiloton warhead the rocket could either neutralize or destroy a multimegaton monster from a distance of a mile or more. The theory has yet to be tested, but it has silenced critics who originally scorned the plan as a foolhardy attempt to "hit a bullet with a bullet." Says an official of Douglas Aircraft, one of the major contractors for the program: "It's like hitting a bullet with a couple of football stadiums...
Humbert (James Mason) plunks bullet after bullet into the drunk and glibly pro testing Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers), a TV playwright who stole Humbert's Lolita from him but did not keep her. In the book, the shooting of Quilty was eerily comic; in the film, despite the inspired foolery of Sellers, the scene is awkwardly and ominously facetious...
...Osteopathic Clinic, produced a snub-nosed .38-caliber revolver he had stolen from a doctor's coat. "I got a crazy idea," he said, pointing it kiddingly at the others. "Let's play Russian roulette." Then the gun went off, and David Lazarov went down with a bullet in his head...
...Taylor Allen, former Southwest area director for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said that Henry Marshall, chief of production adjustment in Texas, had been planning to torpedo Estes' cotton scheme, when he was found dead with five bullet holes from a bolt-action rifle. Originally ruled a suicide by local authorities, the case is now being investigated by a grand jury...
...whining sound like nothing I ever heard before." He looked over his shoulder at the 42-story Equitable Life Assurance Building on Sixth Avenue, completed last September. "I saw the scaffold falling," he said later. "The steel cables were draped all over it. It came down like a bullet and landed with a sound like an explosion...