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...Retired New York City Police Officer Edward del Pino, 55, seeing panicky passengers stampeding past him on the ferry's deck, rushed inside in time to see Gonzalez slash a woman to death. Pino, en route home from his job as a security guard, pulled out a .38-cal. pistol and fired a shot into the air. Ordering Gonzalez to hit the deck, he warned him, "You move and you're dead!" But by then two were dead (a 61-year-old Staten Island man and a 71-year-old Manhattan woman) and nine wounded (including a touring couple from...
...home guard, or "commando," units, while the army sweeps the roads for mines at least twice a day. Many farmers in the area have built high security fences or walls around their homes, and all are connected by shortwave radio. One such farmer, Johan de Villiers, wears a Beretta pistol wherever he goes on his 2,000-acre spread. Two of his four sons are now farmers, and one of them, Gerrie, was injured by an exploding land mine late last year...
...August 1971 Stephen Bingham, a Yale-educated attorney with left-wing sympathies, paid a visit to San Quentin Prison Inmate George Jackson, a Black Panther leader and author. After the meeting, Jackson pulled out a 9-mm pistol, sparking a melee that left six dead, himself included. Police postulated that Bingham had smuggled the gun and two ammo clips to his client. Bingham, who was then 29, went into hiding; after 13 years, he returned to California in 1984 to face conspiracy and murder charges...
Sandwiches even inspire a special lingo used by coffee-shop and deli personnel to relay orders to the sandwichmen behind the counter. Because pastrami can sound a lot like salami when shouted out in a busy, noisy dining room, it is known as "pistol." A "pistol with a shot" means that coleslaw will be added. If the cus- tomer wants his sandwich on rye toast, the waiter hollers "whiskey down." A pistol "dressed" indicates that Russian dressing is to be used, and anyone discovered eating pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort...
...they strike a peculiar stance between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista is hard to find; some analogy between cubist hide-and-seek and a real guerrilla's elusiveness got Rivera thinking about camouflage and disappearance...