Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...espionage service. Sexually, he undergoes a kind of moral regress. A disinclination to make love to women awakens him to his own homosexuality. As an ever more active queer, he is blackmailed by Russian intelligence into turning traitor. At play's end, he is exposed, presented with a pistol, and shoots himself...
Police also harry hippie rallies and picket lines and have sprayed protesters indiscriminately with Mace. Two weeks ago, a peaceful rock-music concert disintegrated into a small riot, resulting in some 20 arrests, after a detective reportedly drew his pistol on jeering hippies. A college professor's wife who was trying to calm an enraged cop was clubbed on the head and later handcuffed to a hospital chair for two hours, awaiting six stitches...
...CHICAGO. Oct. 9-A disciplined mob of demonstrators led by Weathermen rampaged through downtown Chicago late last night., fighting with police and breaking windows in cars and buildings. Several demonstrators were reported wounded by police birdshot and pistol fire; the Associated Press reported at least 40 arrested...
From Astor the demonstrators turned east on Lake Shore Drive, still breaking windows in the plush apartment buildings, small shops, and high-rise commercial buildings. Police emerged from an alley and fired several rounds of birdshot. One girl was shot in the leg by a pistol...
...gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown assassins in Jack Harris's Vaudeville Theatre. Bat Masterson wrote of him: "There was never a better-hearted man than Ben Thompson. It is doubtful if in his time there was another man living who equalled him with a pistol in a life and death struggle...