Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whitman told his psychiatrist he had a desire to shoot people from high places. That nothing was done in the light of this threat I consider to be a gross moral, if not professional, lapse on the part of the psychiatrist. It is criminal that this boy could have seen a psychiatrist and not have had basic tests done, such as an encephalogram, which could have spotted the cause of his suffering and led to control of his antisocial behavior...
...that the North's main problem is that supplies are pouring in so fast from Red China and the Soviet Union that bottlenecks are developing, particularly in the port of Haiphong. Inevitably, there are some shortages, as evidenced by the new slogan for the North Vietnamese militia: "Shoot down more U.S. aircraft with less ammunition...
Amid a chorus of protest, President Johnson personally requested an explanation, asking U.S. officials in Saigon to answer three questions: 1) Were there Viet Cong in the hamlet? 2) Were the inhabitants forced by the Viet Cong to remain in the hamlet during the attack? 3) Did Viet Cong shoot at a spotter plane that directed the strike? The answer to all three questions, according to American spokesmen, was yes-and illustrated the tragic dilemma of fighting an anti-guerrilla war. Said one experienced U.S. military official: "We're just going to have to go into the Delta...
...forenoon of a blazing August day, a blond, husky young man strolled into a hardware store in Austin, Texas, and asked for several boxes of rifle ammunition. As he calmly wrote a check in payment, the clerk inquired with friendly curiosity what all the ammunition was for. "To shoot some pigs," he replied. At the time, the answer seemed innocent enough, for wild pigs still abound not far from the capital. The horror of its intent only became obvious a few hours later, when the customer, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, a student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas...
...films of the space walk showed nothing but blurry blue sky. Ironically, the best black-and-white movies show nothing more enlightening than the crew mugging in the spacecraft with a free-floating camera. Even so, NASA officials were quick to point out that the crew did shoot the first daylight pictures of a docked Gemini-Age-na-and one of the most spectacular views of the earth's curvature ever seen by nonastronauts (see color pages...