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...Control. Perhaps his most successful action to date has been an amnesty for the collection of illegal firearms. So far, 278,000 guns and more than 1,300,000 rounds of ammunition have been turned in???astonishing figures in a land where restaurant and nightclub signs used to invite patrons to "check your guns." The much-needed gun control and a midnight to 4 a.m. curfew have already resulted in a significant reduction in crimes of violence, as well as late-night traffic accidents...
...infielders' spikes. While Cleveland President Veeck was once considered crass for handing out free nylons to lady customers, there is now a Cash Scramble Day in Philadelphia featuring a group of fans battling for bills scattered across the field. "Action! Action! Action! With a little blood mixed in???that's what the fans want," says Oakland Owner Charles O. Finley...
This growing power has made Fairchild the most feared and disliked man in the fashion-publishing field. Despite his wide blue eyes and guileless countenance, he and his No. 1 hatchet man, WWD Publisher James Brady, have chalked up?and delighted in???a long string of personality assassinations, cutting insults and crushing putdowns. They have distorted news stories to back their hunches, ridiculed prominent women with consummate cattiness and indulged their personal likes and dislikes in puffs and snubs. But no Women's Wear vendetta, however vicious, has ever raised a controversy that can compare with Fairchild...
...Turnover of workers runs high in the Post Office, with disastrous effects upon efficiency, because few Americans will accept jobs that require work at night or on weekends. Some restaurateurs are hiring the mentally retarded because they are the only people willing to try?and even take some pride in???mopping floors and washing dishes. Hospitals often recruit the physically handicapped for service jobs ?handling bedpans, doing kitchen and laundry work?that no one else will stick with...
Each man in such an action sees only a fraction of what happens. Yet many such personal recollections were chilling ones. "Everyone was scared going in???we thought there'd be heavy enemy troops there," recalls Charles...