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...shot down, "blood capsules" fired from compressed air guns splatter against Plexiglas plates hidden beneath the victim's clothing. There are special bullets filled with flaked aluminum to simulate shattering glass; others are packed with a sticky powder to make telltale puffs of dust when they ricochet off a wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...With a pretense of social protest, the film tries for realism as it pans in on Spanish Harlem and enters slums where children sleep on pallets and adults line up nine-deep to use the bathroom. But what the cameras actually record is little more than a Puerto Ricochet from the smallest-bore gangster plot in the film maker's gun cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Dobie methodically woos her and the others (15 others) with slang of every vintage-words and phrases which, in the imagination of Author Shulman, ricochet along high school corridors in 1959. Dobie starts out safely enough, tells what "bugs" him, what's "a gasser," who's "kooky" and "all that jazz." But in no time at all, the gassers have become "marvy," the jazz is "jive," and people start "yacking away." An echo from the past informs everyone to "stay loose." Another, from the Dark Ages, adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peach-Fuzz Bluebeard | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Ricochet. In Fort Worth, Shorty's Café resounded with gunfire because its owner hid his revolver in the stove and forgot to tell the cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...sixth as Ernie Banks. 27. stepped into the batter's box. He stared stoically while the Phillies' Lefthander Curt Simmons wound up. then whipped around his light (31 oz.) bat like a willow switch. Rising steadily, the ball whistled out of Chicago's Wrigley Field to ricochet crazily through the neighborhood beyond. And the cumbersome Cubs were finally on their way to winning a ball game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slugging Shortstop | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

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