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...terminal in Birmingham, Ala., to start on the ten-hour, 365-mile run to New Orleans. At 2:45 they were barreling along Alabama Highway 5 when a cream-colored car passed them, raced on to a junction, turned and sped back. From the car a shotgun was fired point-blank at the cab of the lead truck, critically wounding Driver Charles Warren...
...Excess Deaths." But immunity is valid only against strains of flu previously contracted. So flu vaccine is a shotgun prescription containing three strains of type A and one of type B. It is rated 60%-75% effective against flu of any kind. PHS recommends vaccination for pregnant women, for diabetics, for all people over 65. and for those of any age with known disease of the heart, lungs or kidneys...
...Three of us were sitting in a bedroom, talking. Our calm was shattered by a series of shotgun blasts. Pellets splattered the windows and lined the walls. We appealed to the local sheriff to help. His response: 'boys will be boys...
Five weeks after indecisive Turkish elections substituted shaky civilian rule for a military junta, the nation still had no functioning government. But after prodding by Junta Strongman Cemal Gursel, now President, squabbling politicians last week finally formed a Cabinet, result of a shotgun wedding between the two parties that most strenuously campaigned against each other and then received an almost equal share of the popular vote...
...still proudly refusing Pennsy offers to share a roadbed with the Central. But between the mounting financial difficulties and the persuasion of John Murchison, a strong believer that mergers offer the Eastern railroads their best hope of profitability, Perlman finally had little choice but to accede to a shotgun marriage. At a casual glance, the proposed wedding might look like a pooling of weaknesses; the Central lost $25 million in the first nine months of this year and the Pennsy $13 million. But the two roads estimated that by eliminating duplicate equipment and facilities, they can save $100 million...