Word: carding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some authorities have suggested that every firearm sold be "fingerprinted" in advance by test-firing to determine its ballistic pattern. In the age of the computer, such distinctive patterns could be kept on file without too much difficulty. With gun owners carrying a license and a registration card for every weapon, ammunition could also be registered and sold only to those with proper credentials. Such all-embracing registration would aid police in both detection and prevention of crimes. Finally, proponents of gun-law reform argue that, just as prospective drivers must undergo examinations, the applicant for a license to possess...
...cannot be a famous racing name (Man o' War, Citation), no matter how long that name has been out of use. With all those restrictions, it was hardly surprising that the horses in this year's Triple Crown competition bore such undistinguished sobriquets as T.V. Commercial, Draft Card, Call Me Prince, Sir Beau and Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan Payson. Stage Door Johnny's sire...
...young man's opposition to induction and a trip to Viet Nam is strong enough, he should have little trouble getting his day in court. He need only refuse to be drafted, like Muhammad Ali, or burn his draft card, like David O'Brien, whose conviction has just been upheld by the Supreme Court. These days, such actions are almost sure to bring prosecution and a chance to argue the case before a judge and jury. But what of the average draftee who feels he should be either reclassified or excused from service, yet shies away from deliberate...
...baggage from an outlying parking lot into the terminal itself. Airlines are spending $150 million altogether on automated ticket-writing equipment and on a joint reservation system. Between the two, a potential passenger could go to a supermarket, bank or hotel to determine plane space and buy a charge-card ticket, then be checked in by machine when he reaches the boarding gate...
...dominated everything. And the October action began with massive protests against the war--draft-card turn-ins that were supposed to symbolize a new direction for the anti-war movement, "from dissent to resistence...