Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Springfield's big gun tonight will probably be 6-5 sophomore forward Paul Wagner, who averaged 22.7 for the freshmen last year and led the team in rebounding. The rest of the starting lineup consists of 6-6 center Larry Buell, who averaged 7.8 last year; 6-5 forward Bob Sission; guard Al Wilson; and guard Tom Argir, last season's third leading scorer with a 9.4 average...
Rifles and Sten guns rattling, they fired point-blank into the seated hostages. The gunners picked women and children as their first targets. Many whites flopped onto the pavement, pretending to be dead. Others did not have to pretend. One Belgian child was cut in half by a Sten-gun burst. Parents who flung themselves over their children were stitched by the wild bullets that sprayed the crowd. A woman sat openmouthed as gunfire chopped down the people on either side of her. She somehow came through unhurt...
...Road to Wasolo. Against the background of Stanleyville and Paulis, the quick machine-gun death of Paul Carlson appears merciful. But against the deeper background of his life, particularly his two years of service as a surgeon in a high, hot corner of Africa, where medicine was as rare as a morning frost, it appears cruel and incredibly wasteful...
...exotica as well: "The teen-age boy with hemoglobin of only 20% who looks as if he had been blown up with the helium gas used for balloons at the circus-only the skin of his leiTs is like old, dried, peeling leather"; the African whose homemade poo-poo gun had exploded and taken half his face with it; the difficult obstetrical cases, as for instance the pregnant patient who had to be operated on for a ruptured uterus. "The lady had come about 75 miles in trucks. When she got here, she had no blood pressure and a pulse...
...seek them out and match them with the taste of the recipient, there are even real pictureless books for real reading. This year, however, the surprise is that some of the picture books are actually readable too. Among the dog books and bird books, joke books and gardening books, gun books, horse books, bridge books and seemingly endless art books, the following stand...