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During the trial, Harris had admitted driving five hours from her home in Virginia to Tarnower's Westchester County, N.Y., estate on March 10 with a gun in her purse. Nor did she dispute that, late in the night, she pulled the trigger five times (though she could not account for all of the shots), wounding the doctor, whose lover she had been for 14 years, four times. But in her eight days of testimony she insisted that she only wanted to kill herself, and Tarnower died trying to save...
...also an intent to do something else . . . to punish Herman Tarnower . . . to kill him and keep him from Lynne Tryforos." Bolen ridiculed the notion that Harris fired her .32-cal. revolver by accident. He urged the jury to examine the gun while deliberating. Said he: "Try pulling the trigger. It has 14 pounds of pull. Just see how difficult it would be to pull, double action, four times by accident." Bolen, who was thought by his superiors to be too gentle when he cross-examined Harris earlier in the trial, showed little mercy as he painted a vivid picture...
...last resort. If such renegotiation of the 1972 treaty failed, the result might be an ABM race. That would surely accelerate the ICBM competition. It is only logical that more and better offensive weapons would be necessary to penetrate more and better defenses. It would also increase the hair-trigger mentality on both sides...
...history's bloodiest century, spiritual bankruptcy deepens, self-control runs out and compulsion to pull nuclear trigger becomes irresistible! Henry Ratliff
...consistently refused to confirm or deny the rumors that circulated within the law school, had said in September that he would like to announce his choice for dean by the first of the new year. Timing an announcement after the Christmas holidays or during exam period would trigger the least student response...