Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). A relatively new plot for the student of shoot-'em-ups: this time the lead-slinging crew of bank robbers is bossed by a hardhearted dame. But the "Killers from Kansas" are finally nabbed by Texas Ranger John Slaughter...
NASA's Project Mercury, to be detailed officially in mid-January, aims to shoot a man into orbit within two to three years, and return him safely to earth. Although much of the hardware for the shoot has been developed and proved, scientists are still working on the development of new metallurgy and better tracking and recovery systems. Pushing the capsule-enclosed man into space will be the job of the Air Force's Atlas (another 20 or 30 Atlas shoots must be made before the missile can be considered thoroughly reliable). Who will be the first orbiting...
...Galloping into London for a personal theater appearance, TV's Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian was bushwhacked by the critics. They spoofed his six-gun William Tell act of shooting balloons off a man's head, charged that some other hombre backstage reached out with a long pin. "Course I shoot the gun," drawled the punctured marshal. "I just don't use live ammunition." But even worse to the critics was Earp's de-Westernized act of crooning love songs in top hat and tails, plus some other "sissy stuff" of smooching with leggy gals...
...single-action pistol as he draws it from the holster, fires as soon as it gets into position, sometimes, alas, even sooner. In a recent match with Dillon's men, the Colorado Gunslingers Association's President Earl Vaughn, a Colorado Springs air-conditioning engineer, managed to shoot his right calf full of paraffin. Says Dillon, who has been guilty of the same sin himself: "The oldtimers must have cocked as they drew, too. 'Course, I never heard of any of them shooting themselves in the calf...
...only amusing incident to alleviate the general dullness of the contest occurred late in the first half when Tech's LeRoy Cooper fouled John Foker under the Harvard basket. The officials were all set to have Cooper shoot the free throw, but the crowd yelled so vehemently that the officials realized their near mistake...