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Darrow put Lieut. Massie on the stand to testify that he had leveled a loaded pistol at Kahahawai and had then blacked out. A defense psychiatrist explained that, at the moment, the lieutenant was "chemically" insane. To nearly everyone's consternation, the jury found Massie, Mrs. Fortescue and their two helpers guilty of manslaughter. Under territorial law, that gave the judge no option but to sentence them to ten years. But a wave of public outrage had overwhelmed the White House on Massie's behalf. Hawaii's Territorial Governor Lawrence Judd got his orders from President Hoover...
...Stunned by a crash landing that sheared the wings and tail from his Skyraider, Dengler stepped bleary-eyed into a world of muck, vines and violence that stood in odd contrast to his tidy, air-conditioned stateroom on the carrier Ranger. Abandoning his radio, .38-cal. pistol and dehydrated rations, Dengler ducked into the bush-but was jumped by Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...
...motorist in Surrey claimed that Roberts held him up and stole his sandwiches. Fifty armed bobbies combed through Dagenham when a bus conductress reported that a passenger had dropped a pistol (which turned out to be a toy). Singer Alfred Hancock, 46, was arrested five times in one day because of his vague resemblance to Roberts. "Why do I have to look like him?" complained Hancock. "Why can't I look like Mario Lanza?" At Sadler's Wells Theater, Tenor Emile Belcourt was singing the title role of Offenbach's Bluebeard when police broke in with growling...
...Surgical Corp.'s more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards of half an hour for complicated stomach or lung operations...
Fifty feet away from him, in the northwest corner, crouched Whitman, his eyes riveted on the corner that Crum was about to turn. Martinez poured six pistol shots into Whitman's left side, arms and legs. McCoy moved up, blasted Whitman with a shotgun. Martinez, noting that the sniper's gun "was still flopping," grabbed the shotgun and, blasted Whitman again. As an autopsy showed, the shotgun pellets did it: one pierced Whitman's heart, another his brain. Crum grabbed a green towel from Whitman's foot locker, waved it above the railing to signal ceasefire...