Word: killers
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OPPONENTS of the handgun ban seem to be on firm philosophical ground in focus on the criminal rather than the weapon. If Oswald shoots and kills Kennedy, what killed Kennedy, Oswald or the gun? Clearly Oswald is the killer because he set the killing process in motion...
Britain had a frightening vision of the future back in 1952, when a combination of pollution and weather produced a killer fog that caused 4,000 deaths, in many cases by aggravating existing respiratory ailments. Communities in the eastern part of the Los Angeles basin have had fre quent "smog alerts" during summer months; when an alert is issued, residents with heart or lung problems are warned to avoid unnecessary activity and mothers are told to keep small children indoors. Chicago officials issued warnings 15 times last summer when levels of ozone (a highly active form of oxygen produced, among...
...Roosevelt and Cagney emerge as the two interpreters of the 1930s for the American people. Mora's attention to F.D.R. is reasonable, but his excessive treatment of Cagney is unconvincing. One of the cult heroes of the 1930s, Cagney reasserted the qualities of aggressiveness and independent thinking in Lady Killer (1934) and G-Men (1935), but this revival of ruggedly self-reliant attitudes was not as important as F.D.R.'s uniquely successful exorcism of fear and death during the New Deal...
...then breaks in when he hears sounds of the door's apparently being barricaded. Segarra, 24, dressed in his underwear, is there with his wife and three-year-old son. He spread-eagles himself on the bed and surrenders. He says that he last saw Velez, the suspected killer, at an apartment on Clinton Street. Thirty-five officers go there...
...name-if they did not have an appalling track record already. Harrison Salisbury, writing in the New York Times, was reminded of the informer in czarist Russia who reported an assassination plot and, when he was disbelieved, turned out himself to be the assassin. During the New York cop-killer man hunt (see following story), one officer left a dollar tip for the waitress after talking with an informer over lunch, then glanced back as he was walking out to see the man pocketing the buck and leaving a quarter instead. "That's just the way informers are," explains...