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...offhandedness, the President's remark touched on the raw nerve ends of those who fear-and have volubly argued -that the little atom in little wars will trigger a Big-Atom World War III. Not so, says Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles in a carefully reasoned article in the February issue of Flying...
Your making a composite picture of a motley crew of trigger-happy poets, callow youths, delinquent teenagers, gun molls and other Hungarian riffraff and trying to foist them off on us Americans as the "Man of the Year" is a piece of journalism that is not only unique but should stand out as the acme of effrontery...
...prospect of reduced wages in plants where production fell below the "norm." As the strike developed, Soviet tanks and armored cars (guns uncovered for the first time in weeks) blocked off Budapest's factory area. When 5,000 Csepel Island iron and steel workers demonstrated in the streets, trigger-nervous Hungarian militiamen began shooting in the air, bounced a few volleys into the crowd. Casualties: two dead, at least four wounded. Two days later the Kadar government decreed the death penalty for strikers...
...bold show of opposition might rally the government's disorganized enemies to guerrilla war and sabotage that would, if long continued, shake Batista's government down. Last week, with bombing, killing and arson on the rise, the regime was clearly fearful of such a possibility-and trigger-happy at the thought...
...kill me-then I grabbed the bottom of the gun-I reached up. I hit him, I shot him-I didn't mean to-I wanted to get away-he was standing there with the end-I grabbed and he wouldn't-and I just pulled the trigger-I didn't want to shoot him-I was trying to get the gun away so he wouldn't shoot me any more-he grabbed the phone-he fell off the chair-I grabbed the phone-I told him I didn't mean to hurt...