Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predominantly Moslem port of Tripoli. Reason: a Nasserite rebel sniper holed up there had scored so many hits on Navy planes with .30-and .50-cal. ammunition that Navy pilots were calling him "Annie Oakley." Navy orders: "Don't shoot back." What if Navy planes got shot down? Said a Sixth Fleet air officer: "I guess we would order them to fly higher...
...grew up on a flatlands farm near Waterproof, La., but farming was not in his blood. He was a fighter, afire with the killer instinct and the true fighter's determination to win. As a boy in the Louisiana marshes, he dropped his bird with the first shot. As a young schoolteacher, he asked for a school in Franklin Parish, where no teacher had lasted a term, and in the requisite number of recesses he beat his beefier charges into docility...
...whose interests have long ranged farther than the laboratory, Seaborg follows Cal teams on out-of-town trips, turns up at locker-room wakes-and also fights football professionalism. In 1957 he became a leading teacher-by-television in the science series programmed by San Francisco's hot-shot educational TV station, KQED. He recently helped overhaul math and science teaching in California public schools...
Valavanis, who was vacationing in Greece at the time of his death, was found shot in his tent near Mt. Olympus. It was reported that Valavanis was killed by an officer who had deserted from the Greek army...
Fallen Angel. In Gainesville, Fla., seven-year-old Greg Davis, outraged because he had to sit obscurely in the back row during the commencement ceremony at a seven-day summer Bible school, commented that it was "a whole week's work shot to hell...