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...Jacob Epstein, one of the greatest living sculptors, is a bullet of a man with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his life's work, London...
...saliva, 4) puts a lead ball on the patch, 5) sets patch and ball in the muzzle, 6) taps the ball with a little mallet or some other appropriate tool, 7) trims away the excess cloth, 8) shoves the ball down the barrel with a short ramrod called a bullet starter, 9) works the ball home with a long ramrod, 10) deposits a priming charge in the pan. He uses black powder instead of smokeless (which is too powerful), so each shot envelops him in a dense cloud. After a five-shot event, he is powder-blackened, tearful and half...
...infantry regiment in the Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer his troops had ever known who literally led his men. When an enemy fusillade struck down most of his company, including a captain standing at his shoulder, the only harm that came to Naguib was a bullet that smashed his pipe. "Why do you risk your life in this needless way?" asked his commanding officer. "It's not needless," replied Naguib. "It makes my men fight better...
...luck, Naguib was eventually badly wounded. The first bullet pierced his shoulder. The second tore a gaping hole in his lung, and the Israelis, who won the battle, left him for dead. He was nursed back to health by Dr. Mahmoud Naguib, his younger brother...
...mighty careful, for Russian-held territory lies on every side. The only rifle range found suitable for U.S. troops is adjacent to popular, perennially crowded Wannsee Beach. One morning two weeks ago, as Major General Lemuel Mathewson's sharpshooters were at their daily target practice, a stray bullet nicked a seven-year-old girl building castles in the Wannsee sand. The child recovered nicely, but the general, to play safe, ordered the beach closed on weekday mornings thereafter...