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...that "there is absolutely no control over pistol sales."* Reported Davis: "In a shopping tour of gunshops and pawnshops, one thing was apparent: all you need to buy a $29.50 pistol in Houston is $29.50." Backing up his story, the Post ran a three-column cut of a .32-cal. Harrington & Richardson revolver bought by Davis-and a pawnshop's receipt for $29.50. Newsman Davis was not even asked for identification, despite a seldom-enforced, awkwardly worded appendage to a Texas statute which stipulates that firearms may be sold only to buyers who have 1) a "certificate of good...
...Business," laconic Cal Coolidge once remarked, "will either be better or worse." In Washington last week, a divergence of opinion about the state of the U.S. economy presented the nation with an equally Delphic appraisal. Said one top Government economist: "The danger of inflation has passed and the nation is in a phase of healthy economic readjustment." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. disagreed. Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, he insisted that inflation is the most critical economic problem facing the country, and that a rolling business adjustment is needed to avoid serious deflation. Said the A.F.L...
...overcrowded tramcars, 860 jammed buses, 14.3 miles of pin-neat subway tunnels, 240,000 autos, and 12,451 desperately driven taxis, popularly known as "kamikazes." To enforce the law in their burgeoning metropolis, Tokyoites have the services of 22,334 policemen (now equipped with nightsticks and U.S.-made .38-cal. revolvers instead of swords). One of the police force's biggest headaches: a spreading rash of crimes of violence by the spiv and Teddy-boy element of the city's 350,000 students, whose favorite weapons are knives and bicycle chains...
...Sierra's peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches (he had forgotten his survivor's kit). Dave Steeves was, in fact, some 11,000 ft. up in the Sierra-a dangerously low altitude for a transcontinental jet pilot, a dangerously high...
...That Now? In Albany, Ga., James L. Stanaland, 30, was reported in good condition after the .25-cal. pistol pointed at his chest went off while he was showing a young woman what not to do with a .25-cal. pistol...