Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH. Under Sam Peckinpah's direction, this film becomes a huge and beautifully composed canvas of violence in the waning West. The script may be a campfire yarn but the final shoot-out is one of the most raucous, violent and magnificent gun battles ever put on film...
...authorized by four state courts after the Omnibus Crime Bill was passed last year led to no fewer than 263 arrests. "We can't guarantee that there won't be abuses in this area any more than you can be assured that a cop will use his gun properly," says Alfred Scotti, chief assistant in the busy Manhattan D.A.'s office, which asks the courts for about 75 wiretap orders a year. "But you want him to have the gun...
Perhaps. Yet that question overlooks another important argument: misuse of a gun is usually a public act; eavesdropping, on the other hand, tends to be a highly secret tactic. By disavowing court supervision of the practice, particularly in cases of eavesdropping on domestic political groups, the Justice Department has created a dangerous precedent. There is a vast difference between legally approved snooping on a Mafia overlord and unauthorized surveillance of a political maverick whose views do not happen to please an administration in power...
...first baseman was always a prodigious but sporadic long-ball hitter. Only after he was traded to the Senators in 1964 did he begin living up to his potential. In 1968 Howard led both leagues with 44 home runs. Says Manager Ted Williams: "That son-of-a-gun is the biggest and strongest hitter who ever played this game. Nobody ever hit the ball harder or farther. Nobody...
...FOURTH--GUN HAPPY should shoot up this bunch...