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Tonight or Never. In Chicago, police jugged Herman Nolte on his wedding night after he celebrated by firing his shotgun from his front porch, stealing the squad car when cops turned up to investigate...
...crew. Each rocket could have its own launching gear, allowing salvo firing and the range would be something like 150 miles. Accuracy would not be good, but this would make little difference. The cheap, light missiles could be fired in dense patterns like shot from a chokebore shotgun, and each would have enough power to knock out a good-sized city...
...Shotgun in the Stomach. During a tense encounter between the Tennessee National Guard and an armed mob in Oliver Springs. 15 miles west of Clinton, members of the mob elbowed their way through shoulder-to-shoulder guardsmen and leaped at newsmen. The chief danger was to photographers and newsreel men, whose equipment made them conspicuous and vulnerable. While LIFE Photographer Robert W. Kelley was atop a jeep photographing the clash at Oliver Springs, five men, three of them carrying shotguns, advanced on him. Leaping to the ground to escape them, he broke his left leg. In the same melee, Nashville...
...shotgun charge caught Harrison not in his natural habitat of Broadway fleshpots, but in the Dominican Republic. But the shotgun, sure enough, belonged to a man written up in Confidential's latest bimonthly issue: a 35-year-old professional hunter named Richard Weldy, who, according to Confidential, had lost his wife to Actor John Wayne in Peru...
...Shotgun Marriage. In 1951, while he was still at the Treasury, Bill Martin was handed the job of dissolving a shotgun marriage of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. The Fed had been stripped of most money-regulating powers in 1941, when the U.S. entered World War II. Anxious to finance the war at low interest, the Government froze the discount rate at i%, suspended the FRB's right to alter reserve requirements, and harnessed it to an agreement to support, at par, Treasury securities, which supplied 60% of the cost of fighting...