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...implement occasionally used to kill. (Guns & Ammo facetiously suggests registering the genitals of all American males, since there are so many rapes in the U.S.) Still, nothing else can translate a fleeting murderous impulse into action more efficiently or finally than a gun. There is no need for contact, none of the effort required to stab or bludgeon a human being...
...simultaneously, did Martin. The policeman grabbed a packet of heroin. In reversing the resulting narcotics conviction, the court ruled that Martin did not have a good reason to stop the man; merely being in the company of known addicts is not sufficiently suspicious. Also, the frisk was illegal. None of the facts should have prompted a "reasonable fear of life or limb. The police officer is not entitled to seize and search every person he sees on the street and of whom he makes inquiries...
...blouse? Yes, decided Los Angeles' progressive-minded Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who last fall made a number of reforms in their way of life, including the right to wear civilian dress. Although other Roman Catholic orders have modified or dropped their habits without any trouble, none of the changes seemed to please Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. He threatened to dismiss the sisters from their teaching posts in parochial schools of his archdiocese. The nuns promptly appealed to the Vatican, which appointed a special four-member commission to investigate...
...civic pride more. In the 1930s, during Mayor James Curley's heyday, Boston City was considered one of the nation's finest municipal hospitals. Curley kept it well staffed, often with his supporters, and made sure Boston's Irish got medical care "second to none." It still ranks as a first-rate research center, as a result of its affiliations with the Harvard, Tufts and Boston University medical schools, but that hardly helps patients with ordinary ailments...
...little yard in their suburban residence in Westland, they consulted a broker subscribing to Realtron. Their specific requirements were checked off and fed into the computer; within five seconds, Realtron came back over the broker's Touch-Tone telephone with a list of houses answering their description (where none are available, the computer moves on to list those "nearest" to what they have specified). In the Grimas' case, the requests were so special that it took two weeks for the computer to find their dream solution. In the process, they never left home. The computer...