Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Hughes complained last week, states with strong laws will invariably be "subverted" by those with weak ones. Michigan residents who want to avoid buying a pistol permit?and having their background checked?simply drive across the Ohio border to Toledo, where guns are sold even at the candy counter of a sleazy hamburger stand. Massachusetts police in a ten-year study traced 87% of the guns used in local crimes to purchases in neighboring states where no waiting period or background investigation was required...
...Explain." Kennedy paused to shake hands with a dishwasher, turning slightly to his left as he did so. Before Bobby released the hand of Jesus Perez, the gunman managed to get across the room, prop his right elbow on the serving counter and, from behind two assistant maîtres d'hôtel, fire at his victim just four feet away. Kennedy fell. The hotel men, Karl Eucker and Eddy Minasian, grappled with the assassin, but could not reach his gun hand. Author George Plimpton and Kennedy Aide Jack Gallivan joined the wrestling match. The gun, waving wildly, kept pumping bullets...
Johnson finally knocked the pistol out of the stubborn hand. "Why did you do it?" he screamed. "I can explain! Let me explain!" cried the swarthy man, now the captive of the two black athletes and spread-eagled on the counter. Several R.F.K. supporters tried to kill the man with their hands. Johnson and Grier fended them off. Someone had the presence of mind to shout: "Let's not have another Oswald!" Johnson pocketed...
Over the past few months, the investment community has been gripped by a new-issue fever rivaling that of 1961-62. Through the end of May, 156 U.S. companies put their stock on the over-the-counter market for the first time, nearly triple the number that went public during the first five months of last year. By the end of last week, about a third of those new issues had doubled in market value...
Entranced by Tomorrow. "Investors are looking for the Xeroxes of tomorrow," explains Raymond Kiernan, vice president for over-the-counter trading at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. As a result, much of the new-issue surge involves computer soft ware and leasing companies, whose prospects for future growth entrance many buyers. Last month Advanced Computer Techniques Corp. soared from $7.50 to $29 a share the day it was issued. Underwriters are still gasping over the performance of Educational Computer Corp., a manufacturer of teaching devices. From an offering price of $7.50 on March 7, the company's stock...