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Johnson's cousin by marriage, Marvin Brown, 23, was a few feet away. "Snake made no resistance at all, none," Brown insisted. He agreed with the police, however, that Johnson was carrying a pistol...
...tear it down. The family pleaded with the police to wait, pointing out that Yehoshua was in the process of obtaining a temporary court injunction barring the demolition, but the authorities refused to hold off". As the bulldozer rolled forward, Yehoshua's son Shimon, 25, fired his pistol from the roof. He hit no one, but a policeman quickly shot Shimon dead. His relatives insisted later that he had fired in the air or at the wheels of the bulldozer; the police said he had aimed at them. Cried his sister Dvora: "He survived the war in Lebanon, only...
...parachute and strapped himself into an aluminum lawn chair to which he had attached 45 helium-filled weather balloons. From a San Pedro, Calif., backyard, he drifted three miles skyward, where he was spotted by two passenger jetliners. Walters shot out ten of the balloons with a BB pistol and floated down to earth after accumulating 90 minutes of flying time. Said he: "It was something I had to do to achieve inner peace...
...authorities that following his 1979 escape from an Istanbul prison, where he was being held on charges of murdering a prominent Turkish journalist, he had stopped in Bulgaria on his way to Western Europe. While in Bulgaria, he said, he had bought the Belgian-made Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol that he used in his attempt on the Pope's life...
Gabler, she finds her own existence claustrophobic and the society around her contemptible. "I like to lose control," she announces enigmatically. She can fire off a pistol in a drawing room to scare the wits out of people, and in the course of Plenty, she loses...