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After last week's sidewalk encounter, a scuffle ensued. Graves and a fellow Negro were subsequently wounded by shotgun blasts from a car; accused of the shooting were Garcia's brothers, Carlos and Robert, who were later charged with assault with intent to kill. Word swiftly spread through Watts. Next afternoon, Negro dropouts hanging around a high school began lobbing rocks at Mexicans and other Caucasians driving by. One stone hurled by a Negro struck a white speech-correction teacher in the head, and-said onlookers-when police dragged the suspect from a barbershop, he yelled, "Police brutality...
...government, should provide more educational aid to more families, but the funds must go to the poorest students. The Ribicoff amendment was a piece of shotgun legislation, spraying aid indiscriminately without regard to need. The government should spend the $1 billion for education, but it should spend it more sensibly. The defeat of the Ribicoff amendment cannot be interpreted as denying the government's obligation to make the opportunity of college education available to all students...
...increasing periods of depression, his dark and suicidal moods. There was a time when Hemingway tried to jump out of a plane in flight; on another occasion he tried to walk into a whirling propeller. One morning, Mary Hemingway, Papa's fourth wife, found her husband with a shotgun in one hand, two shells in the other. He had just finished writing a note in which he made ominous references to his will...
...Hotchner flatly refused to delete the last chapter, which recalls how he urged Mary to transfer her husband from the Mayo Clinic to a specialized psychiatric hospital, how she refused, fearing what effect the publicity might have, and how, on July 2, 1961, Hemingway put the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and blew the back of his head...
...year before he was arrested for the nightrider slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo near Selma last March, Alabama Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins was riding around with a sawed-off shotgun in his car. Stopped by the cops in Hueytown, near Birmingham, Wilkins pleaded guilty to violating a 1934 federal law designed to curb gangsters, which requires registration of such weapons. After a not-too-inquiring probation officer reported that he had a blameless character and Birmingham Federal Judge Clarence Allgood himself decided that Collie's mother "is a real good woman...