Word: rifleman
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...Messine, traveled with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick with his fists; these talents were sometimes useful to Alain, who had picked up a wide underworld acquaintance of pals during his earlier days as a young street brawler, a rifleman in Indo-China and a merchant sailor. For Stevan, it was an amusing existence, but it came to an abrupt end last fall. In early October, a ragpicker found his sackcloth-swathed corpse in a garbage dump at Elancourt, near Versailles...
...Ludke was found dead on a friend's hunting preserve near Trier in the Eifel Mountains, a fist-sized wound in his chest, his Mauser rifle, loaded with dumdum rounds, across his legs. Accident? Ludke was an avid hunter and too experienced a rifleman. Suicide? The Trier district attorney's office thought so, but it did not rule out murder. There was nothing in Ludke's record to indicate a likelihood of treason, but the federal prosecutor's office left open the possibility that he had spied for a foreign power...
...President Johnson, if he attends at all, will avoid this danger, zipping in and out by helicopter. As an added precaution, a dummy portico, modeled after the entrance to the White House, was erected in front of the amphitheatre's main door to block the aim of any rifleman. Even the airspace up to an altitude of 2,500 ft. above the convention site was banned to all traffic ex cept official planes and helicopters...
...witness box at London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court. Then Barrister David Calcutt, acting for the U.S., presented circumstantial evidence against the man whom U.S. authorities identified as Ray. For 90 minutes, Calcutt read into the record depositions and affidavits pointing to him as the rifleman who pulled the trigger in a second-floor bathroom of a shabby Memphis rooming house to kill King...
...Much of its $5,700,000 budget goes toward promoting such slogans as "Shooting Is Safe." Despite its insistence that it does not directly tell its members to write their Congressmen, astounding numbers of them certainly do?usually sending identically worded messages supplied by the organization's magazine, American Rifleman. Tydings, for example, received thousands of letters with his name misspelled Tidings aftter it appeared that way in the magazine...