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Those yards often come the hard way. This season Marinaro has been hitting the line at a withering clip of 39 times a game. Asked why the other Cornell backs don't run the ball more often. Backfield Coach Carmen Piccone says: ''Why use a cap pistol when you've got a cannon?" Head Coach Jack Musick agrees. When Marinaro first came to Cornell from New Milford, N.J., Musick revamped his offense into a Power I formation to take advantage of the muscular tailback's bulling power and long, tackle-busting strides. Lining up directly...
...present, clubs in existence include: a gymnastics club, pistol club, rugby club, rifle club, polo club, water-polo club, outing club, fishing club, white-water club, sailing and two karate clubs...
...most startling example of Greene's youthful reaction to his existence is the game of Russian roulette he played, an episode also recounted in The Lost Childhood and Other Essays. On six different occasions he pressed a pistol to his temple, pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. He gave it up finally, not from fear, but because the excitement had gone: the game was no longer an effective antidote to the boredom which was the plague of his existence. It is here that we receive one of the few quick glimpses Greene allows us of his later life...
...against Russians living in exile and working for the overthrow of the Moscow regime. The last known case was the 1959 murder, with a special cyanide pellet fired from a pistol, of Ukrainian Exile Leader Stefan Bandera in Munich...
...bitterness deepened when British troops killed two men, one of them a deaf mute: the army said he had been waving a pistol, while Catholic bystanders claimed he was unarmed. Ulster's Catholics were also angered because the internment without trial had not applied equally to extremists on the other side; none of the 232 still held were Protestant. Elaborate rumors of their mistreatment circulated through Northern Ireland's six counties, leading William Cardinal Conway, Catholic Primate of All Ireland, to charge that "there is prima-facie evidence that entirely innocent men are being subjected to humiliating...