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...improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year ago) brushed aside Fischer's suggestion that Gandhi preach his doctrine to the West: "How can I preach nonviolence to the West, when I have not even convinced India? I am a spent bullet...
...free and shall be always." The cops started to clear the streets. Stones flew at them. Swinging sabers and tossing tear gas, the mounted police charged. After a few blocks they dismounted and fired into the retreating crowd. Fifteen-year-old Sophomore Heriberto Avellanada was dead with a bullet in his heart, and 19 others, including a few adults, were wounded...
...streamlined 1947 Ford, previous California champions had to blaze the trail. First there was the California Comet, Maurice McLoughlin, whose weapons were lethal but lopsided: a smashing serve and volley. Next in the California line came Little Bill Johnston with the big forehand, then Ellsworth Vines with a bullet serve and an even more devastating forehand. After that was Budge, who had an all-court game and an incomparable backhand. Jake Kramer has something from all these predecessors; perhaps the nearest likeness is to call him a cross between Vines (on whom he consciously modeled his game) and Budge...
...think you are shooting at Elliott Roosevelt with a shotgun and Mr. Hughes might get hurt in the process. He [Flanagan] told me: 'We are shooting at him with a cannon.' He may have said a rifle or some other one-bullet weapon. What he was trying to convey was that it wasn't a scattergun they were using...
Australian doctors were marveling last week at a baby story in their Medical Journal. The baby's young mother, when seven months pregnant, had accidentally shot herself in the abdomen. A surgeon found that the .22 bullet had gone through her uterus. He sewed up the mother's wounds, deciding against a Caesarean for fear of infection. Five days later a premature 5½ lb. baby was born alive and healthy except for a bloodless bullet hole drilled neatly through its thigh...