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Rocks & Towers. Purists scoff at preserve hunting ("Like shooting in the city zoo," says a Colorado gunner), and Natty Bumppo would shudder at the way some owners operate. Most preserves bill hunters only for birds and animals actually shot (from $3.50 for a pheasant, up to $600 for a European red stag)-so the more killed, the merrier. To accommodate lazy patrons, owners will "rock" pheasants and chukars, tucking their heads under their wings and spinning them around until they are too dizzy to fly properly; some birds are so groggy that hunters have to kick them into...
...noncom in the Marine Corps, Beckwith was a machine gunner in the invasions of Guadalcanal and Tarawa. Wounded in the chest before reaching the beach at Tarawa, he saved himself by swimming half a mile to a reef. He married a Navy WAVE, Mary Louise Williams, a descendant of Rhode Island's Founding Father Roger Williams...
...been a machine gunner in the war, and his drawings did to war-weary Germans what Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front did in words. By 1923, he had sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic...
...parlance, Dick Barnett is a "gunner"-a player whose natural inclination is to let fly whenever he gets his hands on the ball. He cannot battle like Baylor under the backboards, or bulldoze past bigger players for driving lay-ups like West. But he possesses one of the deadliest outside shots in basketball-a delicate, left-handed jump shot that is accurate from anywhere within 25 ft. of the rim. Barnett's preliminary motion looks awkward: he lurches jerkily into the air and kicks both feet backward. But then he flips the ball toward the basket so lightly that...
...planes pounded the Viet Cong with bombs and napalm, but the Communists did not break. "My God, we got a fix on one machine-gun position and made 15 aerial runs on it," said a U.S. adviser. "Every time we thought we had him, and every time that damned gunner came right back up, firing...