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...largest cities, only Los Angeles has a lower murder rate. Some visitors may be tempted to commit a mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then they seem to be driven by surly crackpots exploring new frontiers in rudeness and reckless endangerment. New York cabbies also include some of the funniest, most charming characters around. (Advice to delegates: If possible, look for the oversize Checker cabs or the radio-dispatched fleet cabs with telephone...
...support his suggestion of the handgun's use for self-defense, Ferrara declares that "There are no statistics on...how many potential muggers, rapists, and murderers are frightened away when their victim shows his gun, and how many potential crimes are never attempted because the criminal suspects his victim has a gun." That's true, and until those statistics appear I will suggest that the picture of a mugger, gun in hand, saying, "Gimme yer wallet" and being scared off when the citizen pulls forth a cleverly concealed .45 is a rerun from "Wild, Wild West." The idea is also...
...Pounds. There are also numerous financial regulations that would blunt the impact of foreign investment on the U.S. economy. For one thing, U.S. antitrust laws treat foreigners and Americans alike in their restrictions on market control. As for cocktail-party patter about secret takeovers by Arabs, such financial hugger-mugger is unlikely. Present disclosure laws require revelation of the actual owner of holdings of 10% or more in any company whose stock is publicly traded...
Friedman also takes a hard line against industrial polluters. Libertarians see polluters in the same category as muggers and rapists. A person who pollutes the air another breathes is just as forceful and violent as a mugger who breaks another man's leg. Friedman maintains solid support of all civil liberties and solid opposition to all victimless crime laws. He is against the draft, military intervention, aid to Saigon, and the very existence...
...that the world of the poor must be fundamentally revamped or the conservative insistence that such men must all be locked up for life. Nothing less will really reach the Joneses, and nothing like either course seems immediately possible. Meanwhile, Jones has temporarily laid aside his life as a mugger and is working as a hospital orderly as he did once before. How long he will continue neither Willwerth nor Jones himself can guess. ? Jose M.Ferrer...