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...four men armed with 12-gauge single barreled shotguns marched up to varsity hammer thrower Howie Reed's Winthrop D-32 room and knocked on the door. Entry residents who saw the gunmen did nothing to stop them. They were used to the Wednesday afternoon appearance of the Harvard skeet team...
From Winthrop House the four visitors and Reed proceeded to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston (25 miles west of Cambridge) for their weekly practice stint of knocking the clay out of clay pigeons. At the Club, they were joined by Coach Dick Shaughnessey, "Mr. Skeet", as he is known in American skeet circles...
Shaughnessey won the national title at the age of 14, has shot on every U. S. Olympic skeet team, and currently holds the world's 20 gauge record of 446 birds in a row. A "bird" is a hard clay saucer approximately five inches in diameter which is spun into the air much like a discus...
These clay pigeons come from two "houses," a low one and a high one, which are situated at the ends of a semi-circle. They are lofted into the air by springs. The skeet shooter flires away from eight different stations which are spaced at intervals around the circumference of the semi-circle...
After hissing impatiently behind the scenes for 17 months, the Air Force's hottest jet bomber-the experimental Boeing XB-47 Stratojet-whipped into public view last week like a kerosene-burning skeet target. It left Moses Lake, Wash., with a whoosh of its six jet engines, skyrocketed 2,289 miles to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (where it rolled down the runway with a fuchsia-colored parachute blossoming from its tail, to slow it down) in three hours and 46 minutes...