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Some have tried. Shotgun blasts have been fired through his office door. He has been beaten up. Angry, anonymous voices constantly threatened him over the phone. Last January somebody poured gasoline under his newspaper's back door and set the building ablaze. Such attacks have moved Hicks to pack a .25 Colt automatic in his billowing pants and sometimes mount a special night watch with a Winchester .30-.30. But he still prefers to do battle with the same weapon that provoked the harassment-the weekly Tennessee newspaper he took over in 1967, the Monroe County Democrat (circ...
...Scottish highlands, he plays a daft and decadent nobleman, improbably named Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, who has an unholy craving for his sister (Susannah York). After causing no end of mischief-including crippling Susannah's marriage and shooting his left ear off with a shotgun-poor "Pink," as sis calls him, is packed off to a genteel asylum run by a kindly doctor named Maitland. Cyril Cusack, the fine Irish character actor, plays this role with a certain amount of bemused charm that makes the brother's plight slightly more believable and O'Toole...
...According to the survey, shotgun marriages gave many babies legitimacy by the time of birth. One out of every seven first births was illegitimate during the period...
Hours after MacEachern's statement appeared in the press, two people fired a shotgun blast at him as he emerged from a tavern in Roxbury...
...doing so, Hoffman will deliver the so-called "Allen charge," known also as the "shotgun charge." instructing the jurors in the minority to reconsider the majority view and vote according to their conscience...