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...otherwise, the walapoho suffers the fate of any other weed, tumbled over by the hoes into the black earth. Work ended around four in the afternoon: water had to be hauled, and the mules taken care of. One of the men might go hunting with an old muzzle-loading shotgun while others looked for mushrooms...
...Green Bay Packers were riding high. They had won four straight games, shattered the Baltimore Colts (45-7) and Cleveland Browns (49-17), needed only to beat the San Francisco Forty-Niners' flashy "shotgun" offense to gain sole possession of first place in the National Football League's Western Division. Then the blow fell: Private Paul Vernon Hornung was ordered to active duty in the U.S. Army Reserve, effective 30 October...
...much anthologized Kneel to the Rising Sun, a grim and eloquent expression of disgust that ends with another dead Negro. One of the things the author says, without raising his voice, is that men will wince at the torture of a dog and then join a shotgun mob. It is not a story that can be read calmly, but it is written calmly and well...
...Riding Shotgun. The U.S. State Department asked the Swiss embassy in Havana to protest Castro's refusal to release the big plane, but got no answer. The FBI charged the out-of-reach Oquendo with four offenses, including kidnaping-punishable by life imprisonment. New York police revealed a Cuban plot to hijack five more planes. Detectives studied passenger lists at air terminals, kept a sharp eye on boarding Latin Americans. Kentucky's Representative Frank Chelf introduced a bill to permit civilian crews to "ride shotgun" in airliner cockpits equipped with one-way glass to observe passengers. FAA Administrator...
Share the Patents? Testimony on the drug industry is aimed at building up support for Kefauver's drug-industry antitrust bill (S. 1552). As introduced last April in the Senate (and by New York Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House), the bill is a shotgun blast against everything that Kefauver dislikes in the pharmaceutical industry. It would require drug manufacturers to get licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and give FDA power to inspect and close their plants. It would prohibit marketing of new drugs until they have been proved effective and make FDA the judge...