Word: austine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization that spends perhaps $2,000,000 a year pushing its official line in pamphlets, pressure on Congress, gun-magazine advertisements and its own publication The American Rifleman. In the face of renewed clamoring for congressional gun control action, spurred by Charles Whitman's recent sniper rampage in Austin, Texas, the N.R.A. last week turned for a change to newspapers, buying full-page spreads in the Washington Post and the New York Times, both of which have editorialized vigorously for stronger gun laws. Over the legend, "America needs more straight shooters," the ads picture, of all people, a rifle...
...echoes the plaintive wail of another father, Willy Loman, protagonist of Death of a Salesman, who in exasperation over his son Biff, cries out: "Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told him anything but decent things." Particularly in light of the Austin tragedy, Whitman's utterance seems just as hollow, counterfeit and pathetic as Willy...
Married. Kathleen Jane Carter, 20, one of Luci Johnson's ten bridesmaids, daughter of Clifton Carter, who recently resigned as President Johnson's liaison man with the Democratic National Committee; and Michael James Livingston, 19, classmate at the University of Texas; in Austin, with Luci as one of the bridesmaids...
...Victor Vintage). An album of original recordings from the late '20s with a number of rare gems-Gene Austin crooning Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, Vaughn de Leath treacling out Baby Your Mother, Jack Smith whispering Me and My Shadow and Irene Bordoni French-accenting her way through Cole Porter's saucy Don't Look at Me That...
...trust Officers Martinez and McCoy of the Austin police will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for the way they conducted themselves during the slaughter on August 1. It would appear that these policemen went to the University of Texas tower and shot that nice young man without even extending to him the courtesy of first informing him of his rights, such as his right to refuse to be questioned if he didn't feel like being questioned, his right to have a lawyer at his side, etc. Didn't this constitute police brutality...