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Philosophical Bond. Those were mild words indeed from a man who first gained national attention three years ago by brandishing a pistol and a pickax handle in the face of Negroes seeking to eat in his Pickrick restaurant-and then closed it rather than serve them...
Tame Lion. Offstage, no project or gimmick was too daring, too dangerous or too absurd for her. She took up sculpture and painting, the piano and writing, pistol shooting and fishing, ballooning and alligator hunting. She went down into a Pennsylvania coal mine, kept a tame lion in her house, and-though she claimed vehemently that she opposed capital punishment-attended a hanging in London, a garroting in Madrid and two beheadings in France. "If there's anything more remarkable than watching Sarah act," observed one admirer, "it's watching her live...
...helped convince a Chicago jury that it should acquit Escobedo of unlawful use of weapons. Last March, as he was sitting in his car outside a restaurant where one of his friends got into a brawl, Danny himself was arrested for disorderly conduct and charged with having a loaded pistol under the front seat. But, testified Danny, he had lawfully bought the gun in his own name, and was simply transporting it. Besides, it was broken into four parts, wrapped in a rag under the seat, and therefore was a non-weapon...
...deck for greater precision, thus become vulnerable not only to a dense cloud of flak but also to small-arms fire. Such ground fire takes an even heavier toll than do the surface-to-air missiles that bristle around major targets. "Every farmer over there, I bet, has a pistol or a rifle," says Air Force Major Edward E. Williams, a veteran of the bombing war against North Viet Nam. In dogfights with Red MIGS, though, the U.S. has a 26-to-6 edge...
...thirst. It was her habit to spend the eve of battle walking around on her knees-a kinetic form of prayer-sometimes anointing herself with fireplace ashes. From these rituals, Carry apparently drew prodigious strength. While raiding the Senate Bar in Topeka on Feb. 5, 1901, she disarmed a pistol-toting bartender (his two shots missed) and pulverized a $500 back-bar mirror. When an iron cash register stood proof against her hatchet, she lifted it overhead, carried it outside and smashed it on the street...