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...Only once before in modern Indian history has a hunger striker died: in 1929, Jyatin Das, an Indian revolutionary protesting against British jail treatment, perished after 65 days without food...
...stepped Striker Paul Gruber, a hefty (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ib.) farmer from Utzenstorf. He carried a murderous loft. Stecken, a whippy hickory shaft with a heavy cylindrical head. Eyeing the small (diameter 2½ in.) hard-rubber disk perched on an elaborate tee made of two upcurving steel rails,* Gruber took aim, lowered his stick twice, then drove with all his might. The Hornuss buzzed off into...
...approach. Each wielded a hefty Schindel, a "tabletop" with a handle. As the Hornuss zoomed within range, the killers, one by one, sent their Schinden spinning up, sometimes as high as 40 ft., to intercept it. The last killer in line, stationed a full 300 yards from Striker Gruber, finally brought the disk down. Gruber's team got 20 points. If the Hornuss had fallen, unintercepted, in fair territory, heavy penalty points would have been scored against the killers. At halftime, killers and strikers swapped roles...
...Orange Bowl and 100,000 to Detroit's Belle Isle the Lone Ranger is seldom identified as a 49-year-old actor named Brace Beemer, who stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 195 Ibs., and raises saddle horses on his Michigan farm. Like Trendle and Script Director Francis Striker, Beemer has been with the show since its inception. He served as program narrator during the five years when Actor Earle Graser, who died in 1941, played the Lone Ranger...
...said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also in a thigh, arm and ankle, somehow stumbled 50 yards to the plant and fell unconscious. A striker's bullet tumbled McGinnis into the rye, but he climbed to his feet, emptied a .38 at the embankment, and staggered to safety with wounds in his skull and in his neck...