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...stringless yoyo, so delightedly that I did not notice when we began to slow down. By inertial force, the sinker glided forward from my upraised left hand. My grab for it was defeated by the shoulder harness. Over the hot mike I warned Brett: "There's a lead slug corning over your left shoulder." He looked up, saw the sinker gliding past his head in slow motion, bided his time and coolly upped the plane's nose. The movement dropped the sinker gently into his lap. As he passed it back, he also gave me a short piece...
...Hire. In Glen Burnie, Md., Loren Staples, 4, watched film funnies on TV for a while, then hurried off to a bedroom, climbed a chair, got daddy's pistol and, returning to the TV show, pumped a .38-caliber slug into...
...killing, Dean slapped her face. Lydia ran into another room, saw the rifle. She decided, she testified, to prove her love by demanding that her husband shoot her. Then she heard her baby cry, and in running to her daughter, tripped. The rifle fell, she insisted, and fired its slug two inches from Dean...
...line wrote with fascination. Author Grimault describes a degenerate clan of French peasants and the flotsam that fetches up at their farm-two prostitutes, four U.S. Negro soldiers foraging for sex, and a netful of AWOL lunatics, including a gently demented old clown and a bloody-nailed slug named Chopper (he is obsessed with decapitation). When Chopper is gored by a huge white bull, a litter of bare-bottomed children worry his body like jackal pups, then lose interest while a pig nuzzles the corpse. The narrator, a young farm girl, tumbles through her tale with savage glee, takes...
Dead Ends. Bull-necked little Alphonse Halimi is the latest of the ring toughs that France breeds in its brawling hinterland on the far side of the Mediterranean. Even Parisian roughnecks from la zone (outer slums) are no match for scrappers who slug their way out of the free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi...