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Carol Metherd was a loner who lived apart from her husband. She studied horoscopes, Zen Buddhism and the maunderings of a ouija board and, it was said, turned on without drugs. "She was very spiritual," said a hippie named Mongol. But another recalled that Carol had talked of using "speed" (an amphetamine drug) to control her weight; a prolonged "high" with amphetamines is often followed by an even deeper letdown...
Though Wasik had always been known as a brooding loner, he seemed to develop a new morbidity. "I feel like now I'm marking time until I join her," he told a friend. To another he said: "I killed her." For $4,400, he bought from a used-car dealer the supercharged Corvette that once belonged to Astronaut Gus Grissom, careened it along Florida roads at up to 135 m.p.h...
...almost exterminated grizzly bear in the U.S. is a loner [Aug. 25] and rarely attacks humans unless startled, cornered, wounded or aggravated...
Little in Common. Where Adolf Eichmann sought to evade moral responsibility by claiming that he was following orders, Stauffenberg disobeyed orders in the name of moral responsibility. He had little in common with history's successful assassins. He was no envious leftist loser and loner like Lee Harvey Oswald, no anarchist fanatic like Czolgosz (the man who killed President McKinley), no tribal desperado like Princip (who shot Archduke Ferdinand and brought on World War I). He was rather an honorable officer and gentleman, a colonel on the general staff of the German army. Why, then, did he decide...
Wayne this time plays an indestructible loner hired by a greedy cattle baron to gun down the drunken but law-abiding sheriff of El Dorado, Texas. When the Duke discovers that the intended victim is actually his tough old sidekick (Robert Mitchum), he and his horse head for the hills, and for a series of picaresque encounters with some memorable bit players, including a snake-eyed reptile of a gunslinger (Edward Asner) and a garrulous old Injun fighter (Arthur Hunnicutt). The cattleman hires the gunman to knock off Mitchum, and Wayne comes roaring back to town to help the good...