Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only to freeze motionless-one foot poised ludicrously in midair-as the sound stopped abruptly. In such quick, sporadic scrambles, Johnson covered 150 yds. before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled shotgun shattered the morning, and the bird dropped. After six years of trying, the hunter had finally bagged his first Auerhahn-the plump European grouse (English name: capercaillie) so rare that it is verboten to shoot more than one in a lifetime, so elusive that only the most persistent hunter ever...
...TIME, Oct. 24), has already run into some mysterious acts of sabotage. Acid dumped from highway overpasses ruined the paint jobs on one shipment of 29 autos and on another of 150. The railroad had to pay $484,000 for the damage. Other railroads have had cars damaged by shotgun blasts or peppered with rocks. To guard the shipments, Frisco's auto trains now carry an extra caboose and an extra crew...
...Fire a shotgun into a crowd of Texans, and sure as shootin', a candidate for the U.S. Senate will say ouch. Up for a vote next week is the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Lyndon Johnson,* and under Texas rules for special elections, there are no nominating primaries and no party labels. It costs only the filing of an application and a $50 fee to become eligible for the honor, and $50 is not hard to come by in Texas. No fewer than 71 men and women are looking...
Such has been the reaction to the press conferences that United Press International's Merriman Smith recently took public notice of heavy mail complaining about press-conference newsmen being rowdy, disrespectful and unkempt. Smith's defense: The fault really lies with the "shotgun mikes," which "have to sweep over a wide-and noisy-section of reporters before settling on the one recognized by the President." Last week, New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, with whimsical tone but considerable feeling, divided the blame between the President and the press. "The President," wrote Reston, "is the chief spokesman...
...field of self-declared parody. He starts with Chaucer (only students of Mid. Eng. Lit. will get much of this one) and winds up with the latest chic spoof of Truman Capote based on a New York Times Book Review section interview ("I am about as tall as a shotgun . . . I think my eyes are rather heated") or the Beowulf of the Beatniks, Allen Ginsburg, whose Howl turns into Squeal...