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Occupational Hazard. Cairo Radio still beams shrill demands that "the criminal King of Jordan" be overthrown, and Hussein never leaves his palace without a loaded pistol in his shoulder holster. But plucky little Hussein - scornfully referred to by Cairo as "transistor-size" because of his 5-ft. 6-in. height - has a king-size knack for survival. This year alone, he escaped three murder attempts, all laid to Nasser. "Assassination." says Premier Wasfi Tal dryly, "is an occupational hazard for the King and his Cabinet...
None of this was very exciting stuff. But then, into the courtroom last week marched a young, half-crazed dishwasher who said he had been directed by a "vision" to kill Teamster Hoffa. He fired several shots at Hoffa with a BB pistol, pinked Jimmy's hide with a few pellets. Tough little Jimmy went fiercely after his assailant, planted a dandy right on his jaw; a Hoffa crony then kicked the would-be assassin. The man required 14 stitches in his scalp, was taken away to jail. Taking this incident as evidence of "hostility" against their client, Hoffa...
...lived through one winter in a windy cabin in the New Jersey woods within horseback ride of the Princeton library. Theories about food and sex complicated his life. Food was either all vegetables or, for a time, all meat. Once his wife tried to kill herself with a pistol. For one thing, she was depressed about life in a snowbound cabin on a no-sex basis...
...door is flung open, and a bloodied Gus staggers in. Ben raises his pistol as the curtain falls-man guiltily ready to do in his fellow...
...antagonism between the soldier and the artist was duly reported by Mrs. Havemeyer in her privately printed' memoirs. At one point, she wrote, Wellington bluntly told Goya that the portrait would never do and would have to be changed. In a rage, Goya started to pick up a pistol lying on a table near by, and Wellington went for his sword. "Fortunately the two great men were separated before they could do greater harm than to express their opinions of each other," wrote Mrs. Havemeyer. "Goya would never change the portrait nor allow Wellington any longer to pose...