Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magnum to TIME for your photopus on Florida! I regret that the format did not permit presentation of one of the most pressing problems in our state-educational quality in the several state universities. Quality is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about the continuing loss of outstanding teachers and researchers from one's alma mater for better opportunities elsewhere. The "pursuit of excellence" is becoming a rout! The demand for "rigor" in education is fast yielding to rigor mortis instead...
...evening last month, Bertie Maughmer phoned police to report that her husband had been shot. Her story: he was teaching her how to use his .357 Magnum pistol when suddenly it sent a high-powered slug through his stomach. On the verge of death, Maughmer seemed to back her story. But nine days later he recovered enough to tell a different tale. After a violent argument, he said, she had waylaid him in the bedroom and shot him in a cold fury...
...eleven-year-old son Ted Jr. and set out by car for the scene. Before he left, he slipped a loaded .38-caliber revolver into his pocket; on the way, he stopped in the little town of Grover, Mo. and made a purchase: a 12-gauge shotgun and two magnum shells...
Last week, a day after his son was released by the court. Gene Smith and his wife were found dead in their home. Between their bodies was a .357-cal. Magnum. Smith's friends from headquarters said he had killed his wife, then himself...
...items, threw on selected switches that would bring scores of units to life as soon as the main power was turned on. Pilot Bulli finished his part of the check list, made sure that his 40 lbs. of printed manuals were in place, stowed his .357-cal. Smith & Wesson Magnum near his seat. Finally, he put a sign in the windshield. It read "COCKED...