Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal...
Before it could adjourn, the Congress had to receive and act upon a report from the conference committee-and the committee was deadlocked. (Said New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives: "We didn't come within gunshot of each other.") That being the case, there was nothing to do but stay in Washington over the weekend and try again this week...
...wire. A hundred steel-helmeted police armed with rifles and submachine guns covered the house. Finally, at dawn, with Stoffel's permission, the police broke into the legation grounds. Following a trail of bloodstains in the snow, they found Chauffeur Setu lying unconscious under a bush, bleeding from gunshot wounds. They rushed him to a hospital, where he died...
Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress...
...popular sport for England's colonial possessions is pulling the tail of the British lion, whether by asking for independence or more economic support. The most persistent of recent irritations comes from the strategically located island of Cyprus, rising from the Mediterranean within gunshot of Turkey. The Cypriots have pleaded for independence, but the British answer has been as blunt and undignified as a punch in the nose...