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...shooting. Barger startled the Congressmen by saying there could have been four shots, and thus a second gunman. But when pressed, he said there was only a fifty-fifty chance that four shots could have been fired. Further, he said his finding could be the result of random statistical error. When Michigan Republican Harold Sawyer grumbled, "I'd hate to sue anybody or prosecute any body on this sort of evidence," Barger just shrugged...
...Janey seemed a little sullen; it had not been a good day for hero worshippers. By midnight, the girls were back in their rooms, and it was about 12:30 when a drunken security guard at one of the electric power stations across town went berserk, throwing switches at random and putting all of Memphis into darkness on the eye of the first anniversary of Elvis's death, as if in great, silent tribute to the boy who dared to rock. The tribute was lost on most of the girls, who bolted and locked their doors, and sat or slept...
...Random House; 182 pages...
...train and test two of the dogs that the airport uses to help provide security against hijackers and terrorists. Two sticks of dynamite without detonators would be placed in a car and the dogs would be turned loose to find them. The police chose a passenger car at random in the airport's parking lot, hid the dynamite under the bumper, and after warning parking-lot personnel, took the dogs to another part of the airport to begin the search. While the dogs were searching, one of the parking attendants, who did not hear about the training run, returned...
Granted, runners suffer some hurts from the world's random meanness along with the exotic injuries they inflict on themselves. And a few have been victimized by motorists and other malicious nonrunners. Yet nothing vindicates any image of runners as humanity's special victims -or the most exemplary form of human beings ever. At the rate they are going they may win, by more than a nose, the crown as smuggest...