Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resort of Hyeres, Mellie (Marlene Jobert) sees a stranger carrying a red airlines bag. He looks too creepy to be anything but a sex deviate; sure enough, he breaks into her home and rapes her. When he lingers on, she drops him with twin blasts from a double-barreled shotgun, throws his body into the sea and puts his watch and wallet in the furnace. She does not tell her husband Tony, a pilot who has the grace to be in flight while she is being pursued by a grinning, hard-eyed investigator named Harry Dobbs (Charles Bronson...
...Later, when he was in a hospital room being fed intravenously, police guards told him that they were going to cut the tubes. One pointed a loaded shotgun at his head and announced that he was going to kill him and report that he had tried to escape; then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under...
...Dallas broker. Bache & Co. recently laid off about 500 employees, and the American Stock Exchange dropped 100. Two major firms, McDonnell & Co. and Gregory & Sons, have closed their doors; several others are reported to be in trouble because of insufficient capital. A number of them may be forced into shotgun mergers. The New York Stock Exchange last week began steps to increase the trust fund that it maintains to pay off customers of houses that fail. It intends to build up the fund from $17.3 million now to $55 million. One important balancing factor: though this has been the worst...
...Pellston, Mich. Reuther, who started as an apprentice tool and die maker at 15, went on to become one of the most controversial figures in the U.S. labor movement. Fired by Ford for union activity in 1933, he later worked as an organizer for the fledgling U.A.W., survived severe shotgun wounds in 1948 to pioneer the guaranteed annual wage principle for the automobile industry in 1955. Reuther led the C.I.O. into a historic merger with the A.F.L., but grew so discontented with George Meany's leadership that in 1968 he withdrew his carefully honest union to form a bizarre...
Some have tried. Shotgun blasts have been fired through his office door. He has been beaten up. Angry, anonymous voices constantly threatened him over the phone. Last January somebody poured gasoline under his newspaper's back door and set the building ablaze. Such attacks have moved Hicks to pack a .25 Colt automatic in his billowing pants and sometimes mount a special night watch with a Winchester .30-.30. But he still prefers to do battle with the same weapon that provoked the harassment-the weekly Tennessee newspaper he took over in 1967, the Monroe County Democrat (circ...