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...Trigger Man. Meursault, the central character in the story, is a clerk. He lives in Algiers (where Camus himself was born). One day, on a beach just outside the city, he murders a man, for no particular reason. He is arrested and sentenced to die on the guillotine...
...help promote the movie Vacation from Marriage, the editors of the Vancouver Sun asked their women readers a provocative question: "Why would you like a vacation from marriage?" Trigger-quick came 3,000 replies in three days...
...Louisville last week, the one-basket wonders knew they needed more than Irish luck to squeeze by once-beaten but powerful Kentucky. They relied; as usual, on the straight-down-the-middle road, feeding the ball to 6 ft. 5 in. Vince Boryla, their trigger-armed bucket man. The half-time score: Notre Dame 28, Kentucky 24. For once, the unpredictable Irish played two halves alike, and finished on the front end of a 54-47 count...
...beating administered by Dutch troops); British and Indonesian teams played a soccer match (scoreless tie). In sterner mood, the British skirmished with Indonesian guerrillas, and jailed as "undesirables" a good many members of Premier Sjahrir's Peace Preservation Corps; showing no favoritism, they also cracked down on trigger-happy Netherlands forces, sending back as unwanted 1,200 of 2,000 Dutch Marines newly arrived from Malaya...
...wrote a letter to a 12-year-old neighbor girl named Joan Lepper. "You will never know how much I love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of his .22 caliber rifle to his ear and pulling the trigger. ¶ In Denton, Texas, a 14-year-old Palo Pinto County farm girl named Eva Lee Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand, she told him to stop...