Word: middlesex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sullivan will almost definitely take a council seat in next week's election. But as his loss of last year's Middlesex Country sheriff race indicates, Sullivan's political fortunes are not as secure as they once were...
...proponents of the handgun ban claim it will reduce the availability of handguns and consequently reduce crime, murder, violence, suicide, and fatal accidents. John Buckley, Sheriff of Middlesex County and founder of People vs. Handguns, notes that 54 per cent of all murders are committed with handguns, 33 per cent of all robberies, and 25 per cent of all aggravated assaults. "The key to the issue," Buckley argues, "is that banning handguns will prevent crime before it occurs. If we want to make progress in the area of crime we've got to have prevention...
...Middlesex County Sheriff John J. Buckley said last night that gun control is the key to crime prevention in this country...
...they held their first meeting. Chaired by Cornell Law School Dean Roger Cramton, the group ranges from conservative to moderate liberal -though there are no women or representatives from poverty groups. Still, one legal-services activist pronounced himself "pleasantly surprised" after meeting the members. Said Melville Miller, director of Middlesex County Legal Services in New Jersey: "They seemed interested, open-minded and genuinely committed to poor people...
...world was a middle-class Middlesex town called Pinner, where he was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. The lonely, lumpy, myopic only child of an R.A.F. squadron leader, he was too shy "to say boo to a goose." He was so out of favor with his straight-backed dad that he was forbidden to kick a soccer ball in the garden lest he wreck the rose bushes. He was refused permission to purchase mohair sweaters and Hush Puppies shoes, status gear he devoutly hoped would help him gain acceptance in the local smart set in the late '50s and early...