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...While hunting near San Diego, Ronald Earnest, 16, accidentally shot & killed his 14-year-old brother Ralph Jr. Wild with grief, he put the muzzle of his rifle to his own head, pulled the trigger, fell dead a few feet away...
...There are trigger-happy, sadistic law officers in the South, too many of them. But I challenge Mr. Sprigle to produce any sheriff who has either won or even run on such a platform, who was ever re-elected after a term characterized by the slaying of guiltless, unarmed Negroes. Mr. Sprigle is guilty of slanted selectivity throughout his narrative...
...Electric Trigger. The problem of getting oil out of its protective sand-and-stone armor is as old as the first well. For years oilmen used dynamite, and topped the charge with water. No better method was found until two Los Angeles oil-machinery salesmen, Wilfred G. Lane and Walter T. Wells, tackled the problem in 1932. In a few months they developed their perforator gun, which can fire as many as 128 bullets in any desired direction. Its force is great enough to pierce five layers of steel casing and concrete, make enough fissures in the surrounding strata...
...motorcycle policeman roared up. Fox put the end of the pistol into his mouth and fumbled at the trigger. But he succeeded only in knocking out his false teeth. As he grabbed for them, the policeman grabbed for the pistol. Fox was disarmed and arrested...
...agent questioned him. He talked candidly. But his eyes were fixed on the agent, and especially on the revolver which he carried in an open holster on his belt. As the agent leaned forward to write, Fox grabbed the pistol, got the end under his chin and pulled the trigger. The old bank robber toppled backward, dead...