Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastwood himself, he makes a halfhearted attempt, in MAGNUM FORCE, to clean up Dirty Harry, that law-and-order fascist manqué whom you hated to hate a couple of seasons back. Once again, as in the 1971 film named for him, Detective Harry Callahan (Eastwood) is confronted by a series of apparently motiveless, definitely psychopathic murders. This time, it turns out, they are not the work of an isolated madman but of a self-appointed death squad, members of Harry's own San Francisco police department who have grown impatient with the delays and niceties of the rule...
...glamorous image does bring in a lot of eager recruits, though. Reports Boston Private Detective A. Michael Pascal: "They come in expecting to be issued a trench coat, a badge and a .357 magnum. What we give them is a pencil, a notebook and an assignment...
...feet pounded against asphalt, not astroturf, and the roar was not from the throats of the adoring thousands who used to watch him carry a football, shoot a basketball, and hit a baseball, but from the barrel of a gun, a .357 Magnum in the hands of an off-duty Sky Marshall...
...such a weird place . . Somehow I'm still not dead, although for the first time in my life I've begun to look carefully at the possibility." On Feb. 9, 1971, in a craft shop on the grounds at Esalen, Steve picked up a Hawes .357 Magnum revolver and killed himself...
...earlier unsolved shootings. Just one week before the Howard Johnson shootout, on New Year's Eve, one cop had been killed and two wounded within the space of 15 minutes in or near police headquarters. Slugs recovered from two of the victims matched some of the .44 magnum bullets fired during the Howard Johnson murders. The morning of the shootout, a white grocer in New Orleans' black Broadmoor section was also shot and wounded by a .44 magnum slug. The attacker fled on foot, and shortly thereafter a car was stolen five blocks from the grocery store, only...