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...political activism of the civil rights demonstrations, he observed, has all but vanished. There is occasional involvement but no "continuity of interest." "There is no dearth of opportunities. There is a lack of feeling of obligation for service on the part of many young people...
Once again, the reputation of the National League was safe. After five months and 800-odd games, the league was still struggling to find a champion all last week. Not that there was any dearth of pretenders...
...Toting Nation" studies the increasingly controversial subject of weaponry and the law, finds that Americans, amid a remarkable dearth of effective legal control, own more guns than any other people...
Behind those numbers is a remarkable dearth of effective legal controls over the purchase and possession of guns. Federal law curbs a few things, such as traffic in machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and silencers, but the regulation of firearms has been left largely to cities and states, which have built a crazy quilt of laws, few of them stringent. Until New Jersey enacted a new gun statute last week, no state (and only Philadelphia among U.S. cities) required police permits for buying, keeping, or even roaming Main Street with a shotgun or rifle. Only seven states and a handful...
...Construction Battalion 10 arrived at Chu Lai a year ago last May, Saigon's harbor was clogged with ships unable to unload their cargoes, and airstrips elsewhere were glutted with traffic. Morale at Chu Lai itself was desperately low due to an overabundance of sand flies and a dearth of comfort. It was a perfect situation for cumshaw, and fortunately Bernie Feddersen was on hand...