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...stroller stopped at a traffic light and stared at the girl in the convertible. Was that a very short skirt she was wearing-or a long sweater? No matter; he couldn't stop looking. That was when the girl reached into her glove compartment, pulled out a pistol and let the gawker have it right between the eyes...
...only a water pistol, but it made its point. Raquel Welch doesn't mind stares, but she likes to choose the time and the place. The time is now, but the place is pictures-the kind that move and the kind that stand still and stare back. Only last week she was simultaneously on the covers of no fewer than eight European magazines. The German Quick has put her on its cover nine times since January, and the French Lui recently ran 14 pages of her photos, and hailed her "old-fashioned, hot, sensual return to the curve...
...said that every man, like the moon, has his dark side. Even the lightest of his books is pervaded with that gloomy conviction. He disapproved of his century, his ambitions and himself. In 1866, when he was 31 and a relatively obscure journalist in San Francisco, he put a pistol to his head but could not pull the trigger. "Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed," he said, "but I was never ashamed of having tried...
...Army Jeep slows as it corners on a bumpy, narrow forest road. From the back seat, two wild-eyed German SS troopers lunge uncertainly, then bolt for the nearby wood. A pistol crackles, and the running Germans plop forward on their faces. They were shot while attempting to escape, reports the U.S. Army lieutenant who gunned them down. Not so, insists a civilian witness: the troopers had been commanded to bolt and then were callously murdered. Getting at the truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor...
...year program must attend a summer camp (or summer cruise, in NROTC) between their sophomore and junior years. After six weeks of practical instruction in first aid, foxholes, artillery, tanks, and defensive gas warfare--after dismantling, cleaning, reassembling, and firing a panoply of weapons ranging from the .45 pistol to the M-60 machine gun, the cadet finally decides whether to sign the contract...