Word: gunshot
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Died. Freddie Prinze, 22, comic and star of television's Chico and the Man; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles (see THE NATION...
Died. Yuri Soloviev, 36, one of the world's leading ballet dancers; of a gunshot wound (apparently by his own hand); outside Leningrad. Soloviev's exuberant grace and brilliant interpretation of classic roles won him fans not only in the U.S.S.R. but in the West, where he toured with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. Although he lacked the passionate dynamism of Rudolf Nureyev or Mikhail Baryshnikov's transparent, effortless style, some critics believed that he was fully the equal of those famed Soviet emigres as a premier danseur...
Died. William D. Pawley, 80, financier, philanthropist and a former ambassador and special envoy to several Latin American countries; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Sunset Island, Fla. Pawley disclosed in the 1960s that President Eisenhower had sent him to Cuba in the final weeks of the Batista regime in an effort to persuade the dictator to abdicate in favor of a caretaker government. Batista refused, and Fidel Castro took control of the country...
...scene in order to convince White Russians-who soon captured Ekaterinburg-that their goal of a royal restoration was hopeless because the Tsar and his family were dead. The two journalists conclude that there were not enough bullet holes or bloodstains in the murder room to accord with the gunshot deaths of seven people. In their opinion, the women were spared for a time. Alexandra was a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and King George V, and there is evidence that the German Emperor was bargaining with the Bolsheviks to gain her freedom. The book buttresses the theory that the "Anna...
...dollars. Across the breadbasket of Sonora and Sinaloa states, armies of militant peasants poised to "invade" some of the country's richest farm lands. Near by, dispossessed landowners angrily draped their tractors in black crape. For a time, land war in the campo (countryside) seemed only a gunshot away...