Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gun, Won't Travel. In Burbank, Calif., police confiscated Tom Harper's .22-cal. frontier pistol after he shot himself in the leg while practicing fast draws, next day during another practice session pinked his wife on the abdomen...
Particularly pleased by the news was a vigorous, 50-year-old Crow Indian named Frank Takes Gun, who has been taking his gun on the warpath against the peyote ban ever since he was elected international president of the Native American Church four years ago. He has been aided in his campaign by the testimony of anthropologists, including the late Franz Boas, that the peyote ritual was truly religious, and by the failure of various federal attempts to classify peyote as a narcotic. (Though it may produce a hangover, it is not habit-forming and no more skull-popping than...
Frank Takes Gun still has some vociferous opposition to contend with. Says State Senator Vincent M. Vesley of New Mexico's Grant County: "We are leaving the door open to some religious groups coming in here and possibly saying that marijuana should be used as part of its religious practice." New Mexico's Temperance League plans to organize a campaign urging the Governor to veto the pro-peyote bill. "We don't think it's a good thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote...
...farmer, shotgun in hand, approaches his chicken house to rout a suspected thief. He stumbles, the gun goes off-killing all the hens...
...Have Gun, Will Travel (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Dick (Medic) Boone, dark of coat and darker of mien, guns his man down as painlessly (to the viewer) as any of the Old West's virility boys...