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...report ((July 17)) on 464 gun deaths that occurred in the U.S. in a single week, chosen at random. "Legally-owned firearms saved the lives of far more Americans than those lost during ((TIME's)) 'seven deadly days,' " the advertisement stated. "According to noted criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida State University, every year some 650,000 Americans use firearms to thwart criminal assault. That's 12,500 a week...
...Kleck says his study did not consider the question of lives saved. Nor did he conclude, as the N.R.A. claims, that a crime or an assault had been "thwarted" in each of his estimated 645,000 (the ad upped it to 650,000) annual instances of a protective use of a gun. Kleck notes that his study may have included incidents in which a homeowner merely heard noisy youths outside his house, then shouted, "Hey, I've got a gun!" and never saw any possible attacker...
...Still, Kleck estimates that an assailant or the defender actually fired a handgun in nearly half the cases. If so, 322,000 incidents each year involved great danger, and the potential victims credited their guns with protecting them. That is about ten times the number who die from guns annually in the U.S. "It is possible that guns save more lives than they cost," Kleck says...
Died. Princess Olga Radziwill, 60, wife of Prince Leon Radziwill of Nieswiez and Kleck, who owned an estate in Poland (until the Russian invasion in 1939) which was once larger than Belgium; in Monaco, where the couple lived in exile...
...direct the Harvard moves a committee was was appointed and consists of the following six men, who played in the finals in the college tournament: S. M. Ballon '93, J. M. MacKaye Sp., J. Ralph Jacoby Gr., G. B Wilson '94, E. R. Coffin '93, W. L. Van Kleck '95, and in addltion Messrs. Dresel, Adams and Nicolls. Harvard will play on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It was decided to change the time-limit to forty-eight hours...