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...excellent example of shotgun justice," wrote Editor James Neal of Hamilton County's Noblesville (pop. 7,600) Daily Ledger. "If the past provides a good example, what will happen is that some kindly little old lady will spend the night in jail for driving too slow while some mad motorist charged with manslaughter will stall his trial right out of court...
...same, Bogalusa remained a sleeping volcano. Last week it erupted with a sickening blast. Deputies Moore and Rogers were cruising in their police car one night near the hamlet of Varnado, seven miles north of Bogalusa. An old pickup truck caught up with them from behind. Shotgun bursts smashed the deputies' rear window. Then the truck drew abreast of the car. A second volley ripped out. It caught Rogers in the shoulder and blew Moore's head open...
...sure, a shotgun, marriage. Harvard took a 3-0 lead in the third when, with the bases loaded, Joe O'Donnell walked to force in Gary Miller and Dan Hootstein followed with a single for two more runs...
Trujillo's end came in 1961 when four gunmen intercepted his car on a lonely road outside the capital and riddled him with shotgun and pistol fire. In the four years since, the Dominican Republic has suffered four coups and five changes of government, trying to find its way out of the political vacuum created by Trujillo's death. Democracy is still hardly more than a word in a land that has never known any law save force...
...pays him $155,000 a year. An incessant telephone salesman who keeps his desk clean of paperwork, Harper spends nearly half his time on flying trips seeking new customers to expand the market for aluminum-a product to which he is so dedicated that he even uses an aluminum shotgun on the skeet range. To stretch his considerable energies, he has mastered the knack of demi-catnaps, often astounds associates by picking up the thread of a conversation when they think he has dozed...