Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, by Carl Bakal. Like many polemics, this angry book is flawed by errors and exaggerations, but it offers unnerving evidence that U.S. gun laws are in an ineffective muddle and that sterner controls are needed to keep firearms out of irresponsible hands...
...this scale, according to LIFE Science Library's Sound and Hearing, normal breathing measures 10 decibels, leaves rustling in a breeze score 20, a quiet restaurant 50, busy traffic 70, Niagara Falls 90, machine-gun fire at close range 130, a jet at takeoff 140, and a space rocket...
Dealing as they must with all manner of rogues and reprobates, British bobbies figure they have at least one thing going for them: they never carry firearms in the course of ordinary duty. The theory is that thugs are less inclined to pack a gun themselves if they know the cops will not shoot. Though only 24 British policemen have been killed in the last 55 years, the tacit truce between cops and crooks is occasionally shattered-as in the fatal shooting of three policemen last week on a London street...
...week's end, London police were mounting a massive dragnet to track down the killers-and issuing tear gas and revolvers to the searchers. Whether the pistols would do much good was another question. Police Federation General Secretary Arthur Evans complained that, because of the old anti-gun tradition, "you could count on the fingers of one hand police trained in the use of firearms...
...worked mostly as a "public" trainer for as many as 14 owners at the same time, earned a reputation for spotting hidden talent in horses that other trainers had given up on. In 1963, he invested $125,000 of Gedney Farm's money in a promising colt named Gun Boat-plus a so-so horse named Gun Bow that was thrown in to sweeten the deal. Gun Boat broke a leg. Gun...