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Saturation Attack. Near Hailey, Idaho, miffed because a rat was chewing up a saddle he kept in a barn, Arne Friestad let fly with a shotgun, demolished the rat-and also the barn when pellets struck a nearby box of dynamite...
Richter, never in trouble before, decided in his desperation to rob a bank. He stole a set of license tags, bought a shotgun and sawed it off, drove 70 miles to Ulen, Minn., a town he had never seen. In raincoat and hat bought as a disguise, he tramped into the tiny Northwestern State Bank twice to case it, nervously returned a third time with the shotgun. He ordered Assistant Cashier Paul Ormbreck to stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty...
Border Incident. In Santa Susana, Calif., Cafe Proprietor Irene Sundberg, suing her landlady for $7,000 damages, testified that she had cut off the restaurant's water supply, let air out of customers' tires, fired at them with a shotgun, erected a fence preventing access to a butane tank that serves the cafe's cooking stove...
...novelist. The soldier, Andreas, is a kind of displaced poet in uniform. From the moment his leave-train begins puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny's shotgun weddings. As the car wheels click, he blows a mental farewell kiss to a field of flowers, a scrap of music, a patch of sky. In Author Böll's deftly understated handling, all that might be mawkishly sentimental in Andreas' goodbye to life develops instead...
These results, like the farm findings, raised some interesting next questions, but that was about all. As the independent Milwaukee Journal observed: "There was something for everybody in [the] presidential primary-and really not enough for anybody to wad a political shotgun...