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...striking photographs that accompany the story, Photographer Neil Leifer spent four days in basic training with a brigade at Fort Knox, Ky., while Photographer Mark Meyer visited a strategic Air Force base in the Northeast and joined a B-52 bomber crew on a simulated nuclear-alert mission. After getting a look at a Boeing air-launched cruise missile plant in Seattle, Meyer moved on to Eglin Air Force base in Florida, where he covered one of the largest peacetime parachute drops in U.S. history. Says he: "It's one thing to read about military hardware in the newspapers...
...fact, at the federal level, the N.R.A. has five full-time lobbyists, a group headed by Neal Knox, a sharp-penned columnist for various gun magazines. They are well-informed, savvy professionals, but occasionally their zeal exasperates, rather than impresses, even congressional allies. Last fall, the N.R.A. repeatedly tried to attach a bill loosening gun regulations onto a proposed, long-overdue revision of the federal criminal code. Several senatorial supporters of the N.R.A., including Republicans Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would...
...Eddie Thomas, a Jehovah's Witness, his new job seemed "a grave contradiction." He had been a steelworker in East Chicago, Ind. But in 1975 his employer, the Blaw-Knox Foundry & Machinery Co., eliminated his job and transferred him to an assembly line turning out tank turrets. Jehovah's Witnesses are not strict pacifists, but they believe in taking up arms only in a holy war for Jehovah. Since the firm had no nonmilitary jobs to offer, Thomas felt obliged to quit. Until he could find other work, to support his wife and four children he applied...
Opponents of gun control argue that Americans have a basic constitutional right to bear arms. Says Neal Knox of the National Rifle Association: "The right of self-defense is a fundamental one, and if I know how to use a gun and feel I need one for self-defense, whose business is it to say that I shouldn't own one?" After eight years of trying to fight crime in Houston, Police Sergeant John Gilbert is one of many law officers who see merit in this view. Says he: "It's getting to the point where...
...some of the original settlers, including Dudley, remained, and operated a local government--the first town records include a stern warning to citizens to keep their property in "good and sufficient repair." It also lists Cambridge's first criminals--Knox, of Watertowne, who apparently cut lumber in the town, and Goodman Kinsbury, also of Watertowne, for "encroaching the bounds of this town...