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...more, mostly around military bases. For whereas the organized fast-draw clubs, encouraged by the firearms industry, make sure that their would-be Wyatt Earps and Marshal Dillons use only blank ammunition or wax bullets, too many young servicemen practice the game with full-load ammunition complete with lead slug. For economy's sake, they usually content themselves with a .22-caliber weapon. This can do plenty of damage, but a heavier weapon is far worse. One of Captain Duffy's patients used a .38, which broke his leg and left it partly paralyzed after 48 days...
...pianist, recovering from tonsillitis, holding up a Western concert tour, in Tucson, Ariz.; Sir Anthony Eden, 65, former British Prime Minister, of a mild anginal attack, on Barbados; Marshall Bridges, 31, star (8-4) relief pitcher for the New York Yankees last year, laid up with a .25-cal. slug from a lady's pistol in his left calf, following a barroom wild pitch, in Fort Lauderdale...
...case, Katangese soldiers at a golf course on the outskirts of Elisabethville took the occasion to shoot down an unarmed U.N. helicopter moving overhead. They stoned the six surviving crewmen, pummeled them with rifle butts; a 23-year-old Sikh lieutenant, who lay helpless with a machine gun slug in the abdomen, died unattended in three hours. Indian Brigadier Reginald Noronha, commander of U.N. troops in Katanga's capital, was furious. "This is the last time," he said. "Next time there are going to be fireworks...
...jittery, prayerful and sometimes ghoulish spectators who watched earlier Mercury flights. Newsmen on the spot neither applauded nor cheered, as before, as the rocket lifted easily into a clear blue sky. Even after Sigma 7 went into orbit, many Americans preferred to watch the Giants and the Dodgers slug it out in their final play-off game...
More sophisticated (and more expensive) testers smile pityingly at such questions, pointing out that no booze hound, no matter how shaky he feels when he fills out the test, is going to admit to his future boss that he takes a slug when he wakes up each morning. The sophisticated testers are more "psychological," although many of them are not psychologists. They rely on supposedly cheatproof tests, asking their subjects to complete sly sentences ("My greatest fear . . ." "What pains me . . ."), flashing Rorschach inkblots, or as in the sample above, asking the testee to draw figures. Author Gross includes...