Word: chapman
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Says Billy Chapman, a former N.R.A. membership director who operates a gun store in a suburb of Kansas City, Kans.: "The average N.R.A. member is the average American citizen-a family man in his early 30s with just over two children, a home and two cars." In many areas, it is known more for its marksmanship competitions and outdoor recreational programs than for its political activities. Adds Jack Ludwig, past secretary of the Cincinnati Muzzle-Loading Rifle Club, an N.R.A. affiliate: "It is a very old and honorable organization that does a lot of good for shooters and hunters...
...Winslow Chapman...
...from city to city, partly to stalk then" targets in an eery dance of death - drawing close, then pulling away - and partly to express in frantic motion a personality threatened with disintegration. Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union, New Orleans and Mexico; John Lennon's accused killer, Mark Chapman, moved from Tennessee to Atlanta to Honolulu and New York...
...question was almost unthinkable. Sixteen months ago, as Britain rocked with revelations that Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's own art curator, had been a Soviet agent, Writer Chapman Pincher, dean of Fleet Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked with the KGB?" Nobody pressed for an answer, and no wonder. Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned. After his retirement in 1965 Hollis...
...Banning handguns. Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C., have tried this by imposing severely restrictive permit requirements, backed by mandatory penalties for violations. But these tough laws will not work if nearby communities have easier ones. Mark David Chapman brought a legally purchased gun all the way from Hawaii to kill John Lennon in Manhattan. Bernard Welch stole a gun in Virginia and used it to kill Michael Halberstam, a noted cardiologist and author, in Washington. A ban would attempt to prevent any new handgun from coming into circulation; it would not affect hunting rifles and shotguns, which are more...