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...well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside audience, a bystander fired six blank pistol shots in her direction as she was riding down London's Mall to the Trooping of the Color. As Alice might have put it, God-and tighter security-save the Queen...
...already practiced with our Nel-Spot pistols, blasting away from about 30 yds. at a large sheet of plywood. The Nel-Spots are as big and heavy as .45 automatics, and just as deadly looking, although actually they are not a great deal more dangerous than water pistols. They use a carbon-dioxide propellant cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from...
...croquet course, portaging a full-size canoe. But while the decathlon was amusing, it was not fully satisfying in terms of life-or-death savagery. The symbolism of the Nel-Spot, on the other hand, was red in tooth and claw. Someone mentioned seeing an ad for the pistol in a magazine, and it was instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival Game almost instantly. There would be a forested tract of about 100 acres and up to twelve competitors stalking one another through the underbrush with Nel-Spots...
...would head out by himself to do what damage he could, and four of us would range as an attack squad to capture the opposing red flag. I loped off with the attackers, a middle-aged gun-control advocate in a camouflage shirt, knocking the brush aside with my pistol...
DIED. Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández, 71, moderately leftist, U.S.-backed President of the Dominican Republic since 1978, who improved health services, schools and rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an accident but rumored to have been suicide prompted by despondency over a threatened investigation of government corruption); in Santo Domingo. Elected despite an army attempt to block the counting of ballots, Guzmán planned to give up his office next month, after becoming the first elected President...