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...strong right arm in the barracks. Two men could hardly be more different in personality. Costa e Silva is a soldier's soldier, as bluff and hearty among his officers as Castello Branco is quiet and intense. Yet they work together as closely as the barrels of a shotgun; they graduated in the same class at Rio's Realengo Military Academy and have been on the same side in every crisis since...
...ballistics expert. With the help of a New York City detective, Waite demonstrated that the prisoner was innocent and ballistics (as then practiced) was baloney. With admirable zeal, he set out to create a science from scratch. Be tween 1919 and 1923 he acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side arm of recent manufacture, and simultaneously developed microscopic devices for examining gun barrels and comparing projectiles. Waite's methods were vindicated at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, where the new instruments demonstrated irrefutably that a bullet from the gun Nicola Sacco was carrying had killed the payroll guard...
...Michael Blundell, a busky-cheeked pioneer who came out to Kenya 40 years ago with only a shotgun on his back, was ready to retire to England just a year ago. After a disappointing political comedown following uhuru, he felt the country did not need him. Now he plans to stay on in his fieldstone farmhouse above Nakuru as a brewery director. Says Blundell, who was in charge of putting down the Mau Mau insurrection: "I know now that there is no relationship between the African's outlook today and what it was before. He is much happier...
...1870s, when the slaughter reached its peak, hard-working hunters could net 15,000 birds in a single day-at a market value of $1,250. News of a nesting was spread by telegraph; hunters came from miles around, and the pigeons were trapped, bludgeoned or shot (a single shotgun blast once brought down 187 birds). Squabs were knocked down from their nests with long poles or burned out with fire. In one three-week period, 5,000,000 pigeons were wiped out at a single nesting site...
...Hayneville, the workers were abruptly released without bond a week later, on the same day that their cases were transferred to federal court. Shortly afterward, in front of the red frame Cash Store two blocks from the courthouse, the two men of the cloth were felled by two shotgun blasts. Daniels died instantly; Morrisroe was critically wounded in the back...