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Hussein takes it all philosophically. "When your time comes to die, you die," he says. "It is God's will." To even up the odds a bit, he wears a .38 pistol tucked in his belt or an armpit holster under his coat. But he obviously enjoys danger. His once cherubic face is now deeply lined, and his hair is flecked with grey, but his sturdy arms and legs are hard with the muscles of a sportsman. He is an inveterate hunter, horseman, scuba diver and deep-sea fisherman. He introduced water-skiing to Jordan, then took up kiting...
Next door a buxom broad bounced to the beat. A cop walked over, his hip holster unflapped and tried to scowl; a battered Ford sedan puttered up the river at five knots and no one noticed. A gorilla sauntered by and everyone smiled...
...hardly looks like the stuff of legend: plump and puckish, a shy grin on his broad leg-of-mutton face, a shoulder holster sagging from the armpit of his sweat-blotched, green T shirt, a drinker of nothing more stimulating than cream soda. Yet Senior Chief Petty Officer Bernard G. Feddersen, 35, of the Seabees, is renowned from Danang to the Delta as the sharpest cumshaw artist in all Southeast Asia...
...view the robes their Prince donned when he received an honorary doctorate in Indonesia, the army uniform he wore back in 1954 as a leader of Cambodian insurgents, and a certificate issued by French colonial authorities stating that Snookie indeed graduated from grade school. Also on hand: the revolver, holster and flight suit of an American pilot shot down over Cambodia last October...
...this time, according to Rowe, he was under the impression that his companions intended only to frighten their victims or, at worst, to beat them up. When the killer began firing at Mrs. Liuzzo, Rowe struggled with his own pistol, but could not get it out of its holster in time, he told the jury. When the three tried-and-true Klansmen who were riding with him finally come to trial, Rowe will be the only eyewitness against them. The Negro youth in the car with Mrs. Liuzzo has said that he would have difficulty identifying the occupants...