Word: guns
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FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2) 3. The Honey Badger, Ruark (3) 4. Those Who Love, Stone (10) 5. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (4) 6. Hotel, Hailey (6) 7. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5) 8. The Green Berets, Moore (9) 9. Thomas, Mydans 10. The Looking Glass War, le Carre...
President Johnson decided to make another major increase in American troop levels in the war zone. There, in a series of savage engagements (see THE WORLD), combat-hardened U.S. fighting men mauled well-equipped and well-disciplined regular North Vietnamese divisions-proving again that man for man, gun for gun, the American soldier is as deadly a foe today as he was in the Pacific jungles and islands of World War II. And, as another, less-noticed measure of the nation's wider and deeper involvement in Viet Nam's war, the four-year toll of American lives...
...winged HU-16 sea-rescue amphibian of Air Force Captain David P. Westen-barger, who had been on patrol 150 miles away when he first heard the radioed cry of "Mayday." Dropping through the cloud layer to 100 ft., West-enbarger saw an oncoming 30-ft. junk spitting machine-gun bullets just short of Huggins. "Dunk that junk," he ordered four fighters circling overhead. As they complied, Westenbarger splashed down near Huggins, taxied between him and the pistol-packing swimmers, pulled the downed aviator aboard while the HU-16's flight mechanic blazed away at the bobbing heads with...
...court pointed out, the situation is now reversed. While jail is far less harrowing, every U.S. policeman packs a gun and is duty-bound not to be cowed by a suspect's resistance. "Self-help," said the court, "is antisocial in an urbanized society." It just about guarantees "escalation into bloodshed" -and is unnecessary at a time when the rights of the accused are being constantly expanded. As a result: "We declare it to be the law of this state that a private citizen may not use force to resist arrest by one he knows or has good reason...
...prisoner was innocent and ballistics (as then practiced) was baloney. With admirable zeal, he set out to create a science from scratch. Be tween 1919 and 1923 he acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side arm of recent manufacture, and simultaneously developed microscopic devices for examining gun barrels and comparing projectiles. Waite's methods were vindicated at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, where the new instruments demonstrated irrefutably that a bullet from the gun Nicola Sacco was carrying had killed the payroll guard, ∙ FORENSIC MEDICINE, a science that had languished since the Renaissance, came on with...