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...Trophy which goes with the title. Later, another tradition was followed when the father of an alumnus invited the varsity members to be his guests for a day of pheasant hunting on his 1,500-acre estate near Princeton. In fine fettle, Tiger Star Dick Kazmaier-proved that his trigger finger was just as good as his passing eye by bagging a brace of birds...
...data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right, he squeezed a pistol-like trigger, firing the first gun. The ship's crockery rattled as a 260-lb. shell hurtled over the mountain...
...deputy he shined the light in my face and he said to the sheriff, 'That son of a bitch is not dead,' and then he said, 'Let's kill him.' The deputy sheriff then pointed the pistol on me and pulled the trigger, snapped the trigger, and the gun did not shoot. He took it around to the car lights and looked in it and shined the light on it. He turned it on me again and pulled it and that time it fired. It went through me here [indicating his neck] and then...
Russian Roulette. At 17, he tried the most drastic cure for boredom he could think of: Russian roulette. He put a bullet in a revolver, spun the chambers, then put the muzzle to his head and pulled the trigger. "It was a gamble with six chances to one against an inquest." He learned that he could enjoy the world again for a while by risking its total loss. But even toying with life became a bore. The fifth time he tried it, "I wasn't even excited." The sixth time was the last...
...interesting Western parallel is shaping up in United States character assassinations. McCarthy's ritualistic assault on Philip Jessup, for example, was denounced by Senator Guy Gillette as a "warped and distorted picture," created by deletions and "unjustified associations of quotations." In other words, trigger-man McCarthy had been caught firing blanks; why, then, did Jessup fall? Why did Gillette himself join with Republicans last week in voting against the nomination for U.N. delegate, despite his own conviction of Ambassador Jessup's loyalty...