Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 3000 women were shot down, "by person or persons unknown," in the streets of this country's cities last year. Seven times that number were injured, beaten, or raped by sexual perverts. Almost every woman has been "peeped at" or bothered at some time in her life. The Sniper is the tale of one oddly twisted man who limited his passion to sniping at young brunettes...
...screenplay, itself, is oversimplified. Starting with Kennedy's blinding by a German sniper, it traces his hospitalization and rehabilitation. But all of his problems are assumed related to his physical defect. No mention is made of his civilian life, or the possibility that blindness might have compounded former problems. This kind of treatment might be effective for an educational film; it leaves a large gap in a supposed piece of cinematic...
...dynamite was found wired to the starter of his car. That autumn, a rifleman shot him in the leg on the highway. Two months later, his wife Mildred got into his automobile, stepped on the starter and was killed by an explosion. A month after that, a sniper hit Noble with two bullets as he was leaving his house in Dallas. Another shot whanged through the window of his hospital room. Newspapers called Noble "the man with nine lives...
Last week a letter from a brother officer told of Hero Sutton's death near Suwon on Feb. 3. A sniper shot him in the head when he was setting up a forward defense post...
...Reds had pulled back, taking their wounded with them. Four times through the heat of the day the cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under sniper fire. They put their dead and wounded in a dugout canoe and went forward. From the river, Ensign Lecorche led his LCMs and LCVPs cautiously into the jungle by way of a narrow stream. A sniper's bullet hit Lecorche's second in command, and when Communist machine guns...