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...after them. Bullets missed him so often that it seemed they would never learn the way. He once climbed unscathed up a hill through a hail of slugs to collar two pistol-happy punks, another time managed to arrest a gunman who emptied his revolver at him from point-blank range...
...Silva, 51, better known as Bulletproof Perpétuo, Rio de Janeiro's greatest detective, who for 30 charmed years outdrew, outpunched and outtalked the most fearsome bandidos in Rio's slums; of a bullet wound inflicted by a jealous fellow officer who shot first, at point-blank range; in a dingy...
WITH her engines grinding at a rowboat's pace and her crew peering anxiously at debris in the water, the U.S. destroyer Boyd slipped in toward Japanese-held Nauru Island on the morning of Dec. 8, 1943. A U.S. fighter pilot had been- shot down within point-blank range of the island shore batteries, and the Boyd was bent on rescuing him. Suddenly, two 6-in. shells crashed into the forward .engine room, destroying half of the ship's power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp...
...vest of overlapping plastic plates covers all vital body areas and weighs only 4 Ibs. It protects against all thrown objects, grenade and mortar fragments, and bullets moving slower than 1,000 ft. per sec. (which includes a wide variety of small-arms fire from anything but point-blank distance). Men who wear it, says Colonel Applegate, are much more willing to "close": they will perform countermob duties more aggressively...
Dick Ames rushed the Yale goal but several point-blank shots only ricocheted off Don Ogilvie, Tink Gunnoe managed a goal at 9:32, but 17 seconds later the irrepressible Gibson scored again and Harvard was just about through...