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...police-station headquarters. Hastily mustered Danish and Norwegian members of the UNEF guard drove off the rioters by tossing tear-gas grenades and firing warning shots into the air, but not before a young bystander named Mohammed el Moushref fell beside his bicycle with a fatal ricochet-bullet wound in his chest...
Died. Dr. Israel Rudolf Kastner, 50, Hungarian Jewish leader, and central figure in a lacerating controversy in Israel over charges of wartime collaboration with the Nazis (TIME, July 11 1955); of bullet wounds inflicted by terrorists on March 4; in Tel Aviv...
...bride is stolen from him by a playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...
...Roulette Room of Miami Beach's Monte Carlo Hotel one morning last week, the leaders of big labor closed in on the chief of their biggest affiliate, hefty, bullet-headed Dave Beck, president of the 1,400,000 Teamsters. With the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther looking over his shoulder, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany laid it on the line: "Look, Dave, you brought this on yourselves. We wouldn't have had to take this up now if you guys hadn't refused to testify...
...refuse to admit defeat by wearing boots), we pondered the 19th century's foolish sentimentality and unrealism. Snow's truer character lay revealed in Ukichiro Nakaya's authoritative "Snow Crystals." Besides the run-of-the-mill hexagonal-plane dendritic form crystals, there are spatial dendritic, pyramid and columnar, bullet, needle and graupel types, to mention a handful. Of especial interest was the Tsuzumi type, so named because of its resemblance to a Tsuzumi, a Japanese tom-tom. It is a hard crystal to describe, but picture a Tsuzumi and you nearly have...