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Soon it was lunchtime, and hungry Pierre, refreshed by the sun and the river breeze, was more than ready. But the Premier wanted to go skeet shooting. "I always shoot first and miss so the guests won't feel bad," said Khrushchev genially. He was as good as his word-twice...
...breakdown of injuries, with fatalities in parentheses: Softball, 703; football, 520-basketball, 504; water sports, 359 (76); winter sports, 154; baseball, 147; volleyball, 137-skeet shooting, 76 (1); hunting, 70 (2); hiking, 16-others, 536. The Air Force reported that 32,013 man-days were lost, at a cost...
...tendency to yip at everything from murder to pay raises for Houston city councilmen. Alarmed at Houston's high murder rate, the Press labeled the city "Murdertown, U.S.A.," campaigned so relentlessly for tighter gun registration laws that it drew scathing mail from nearly every quail-hunting and skeet-shooting type in Texas. Last January, impatient with the slow-moving police investigation into the slaying of Houston Housewife Wilma Selby, the Press rapped the police in an editorial and posted a reward for the killer. The chastened police promptly bestirred themselves, within ten days collared Mrs. Selby's murderer...
...Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave it to his 34-ft. yacht...
...usually begins with a large breakfast in the dining room, followed by a dip in the specially heated pool or a trip to the skeet range. If any practices are held, they are an hour long, and all facilities such as skate sharpening, extra equipment, and the like are supplied by the management...