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...girl and sighs, "Ah, a 38!" he is less apt to be ogling statistics than calculating calibers. More than 27,000 white women in South Africa these days belong to pistol clubs, and many thousands more go armed. The latest boon for pistol-packing mommas is a lightweight leather holster that clips on any brassiere and facilitates an Instant Oakley draw in case of trouble...
...Chicago, Paris and Gibraltar have ordered the bra, which at $4.55 (including detachable covers in colors, as well as lessons in the handling of guns) has attracted 525 South African buyers since late last year. Joubert and Taylor are urging local fashion houses to manufacture special blouses for easier holster attachment, arguing "a figure that attracts an admirer can attract an attacker...
...women agree. "Any girl with a good figure will have a man around to protect her," sniffs a Johannesburg model. Other women protest that a bra holster makes them appear top-heavy on the portside. To which Britain's staid Tailor & Cutter added archly: "A couple of hand grenades would seem more esthetic." Joubert and Taylor are unworried. They have nothing to fear but the topless dress...
...Dictator of Syria, Adib Shishekly always feared assassination and took infinite pains to avoid it. He carried one gun in a shoulder holster, kept another in his desk drawer. In Damascus he maintained four homes besides his official palace, slipped from one to the other for a meal or a night's sleep...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The producers strapped a shoulder-holster camera and wireless microphone on Chicago Black Hawks Forward Stan Mikita to capture the lightning-paced action of big-league professional hockey...