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...devised a method of determining the thickness of the earth's crust by measuring the seismic effect of explosions in the water, thereafter led a series of expeditions that in 1953 placed the thickness of the crust beneath the Atlantic at an average three miles; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Cambridge...
...newspaper Grit (circ. 1,170,000), a favorite in 16,000 U.S. small towns, who kept up his father's policy of salting the news with cracker-barrel sayings (sample: "When things begin to appear hopeless and desolate, try looking in the other direction."); by his own hand (gunshot); in Williamsport...
...Bronfman museum was a $2,000,000 birthday gift from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border of Jordan. Only the Isaiah scroll in Kiesler's shrine can lower into the safety of a bombproof pit. Explained Rose: "If there are a couple of million people who are willing to gamble flesh and blood on Israel...
Last week Radio Havana flashed the news that Labor Minister Augusto Martinez Sanchez was critically ill with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The communique reported that Martinez had been fired the previous day for "serious administrative errors," added piously that his suicide attempt was "unjustifiable and improper," since a revolutionary must not "deprive his cause of a life that does not belong...
...hour later, rioting broke out again near where De Gaulle was to lunch. This time, police submachine guns sprayed bullets over the crowd. Tear gas filled the square. Fire hoses broke up charging groups while police and firemen were pelted by stones. The toll: 26 injured, six by gunshot...