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Though the Federal Firearms Act prohibits the mailing of hand guns, except to military officers, policemen, Government watchmen and other authorized persons, mail-order dealers commonly get around this barrier by shipping pistols and revolvers by common carriers and commercial delivery services. No federal law requires the shippers to question the qualifications of the buyer or notify police. Some dealers also offer a variety of heavy, war-surplus antitank guns and bazookas. One youngster with a mail-order bazooka shot several thousand dollars' worth of transformers off utility posts before he was arrested. Four California youths, using...
Nature's relief, the cool jet stream from Canada, was pushed out of its normal path by a unique high-pressure system, as impenetrable as a brick wall eight miles high. The barrier actually comprised three immense, tightly interlocked, high-pressure cells without precedent in more than a decade. At week's end one of the highs, out in the Pacific, shifted a bit, and a welcome Arctic draft sneaked through the wall to break-at least temporarily-the dog days of July. August was yet to come...
...hardly the Mayflower; yet in front of Phillip's molting, motley crew stretched a continent as vast and varied as the United States, its interior a "ghastly blank" of alkaline deserts, its outer rim a sun-bleached jawbone of barrier reefs and ragged mountains. Last week, as computers in Sydney and Canberra digested the raw data of Australia's 13th census in 178 years, it was clear that the ghastly blank was far from filled-and that for many a ruggedly individualistic cobber the ghastliest blank of all is a government census form...
Motor launches took questionnaires to lonely lighthouses at Neptune and Thistle Islands and along the Great Barrier Reef, while on the equatorial Australian-trust island of New Ireland, Census Taker Douglas Fyfe, normally a schoolteacher, set up shop beside a flooded river to interview rubber-plantation workers. Four men drowned in a swamped boat as they tried to reach Fyfe, but he counted them anyway, since they had been alive 30 hours earlier on the census deadline...
...over, they had chosen a ten-person "workers' council" to deal with their employer, the U.S. construction combine, which is led by Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho, and known as RMK-BRJ.* Far from fighting the unionization, the combine sponsored it as one way to ease around a barrier it had not bargained for: labor unrest...