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Heal Thyself. In Kitchener, Ont., after being chased off a farm by an ax-waving farmer, shoved out of an apartment at gunpoint, threatened with death several times, punched in the nose, tossed down a flight of stairs, chased by dogs, Frank Fica decided to give up bill collecting, become a chiropractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Youssef (TIME, Nov. 21), and had been forgiven. But a good many of the new Moroccans bitterly remembered the bloody clubs with which El Glaoui's police, protected by the French, had for years enforced an arbitrary justice in their city. They remembered the huge levies collected at gunpoint to swell his coffers. Feeling that the returned Sultan had let the old pasha off far too easily, they formed an underground organization and drew up a list of 230 former Glaoui aides deemed deserving of death. It included onetime Khalifa Bel Mekki, who brutally broke up a shopkeepers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Justice in Marrakech | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Walt Disney happily has moved in for the weekend at the U.T. The African Lion will growl at Peter and the Wolf and The Emporer Penguine. Fred McMurray thinks he has everyone At Gunpoint, but he won't have you if you enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

...three were caught by a squad car on Mt. Auburn St. early yesterday morning, following a half-mile chase at high speed, and were arrested at gunpoint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Deny Guilt In Auto Theft Case | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

...Balance. In Pittsburgh, after George Shook, 32, pleaded guilty to robbing Grocer Norman F. Krell of $55 at gunpoint, Krell persuaded Judge Walter P. Smart to put Shook on probation because, "He's still one of my best customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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