Word: owners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Massachusetts presently has one of the strictest gun laws in the nation. A prospective gun owner must obtain either a license to carry firearms or a firearms I.D. card permit allowing him to keep a gun in his home or business, but not to carry it on the streets. The applicant must prove he is not an alien, felon, drug user, or mental incompetent. In practice, a local police chief can deny a qualified applicant a license to carry firearms if he feels there is not sufficient need for it; anyone without a license or permit caught with...
Massachusetts is a good example of this problem, he claims, noting that "only .1 per cent of licensed gun owners in the state committed a crime with their guns in 1973." He cites Boston Police Department records showing that of the seventy handgun murders in Boston in 1973, not one was committed by a licensed gun owner. "It is clear," Cassidy argues, "that banning handguns will only affect the licensed gun owners since the others already hold their guns in violation...
Bowie Kuhn, the Commissioner of Baseball, must have been a happy man last week. For the first time in four years, the World Series was not a stage for Kuhn's No. 1 nemesis, A's Owner Charlie Finley, and Oakland's annual post-season melodrama of clubhouse brawls and management-player disputes. Instead, baseball's show of shows was a tight, tense struggle between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. It even featured an old-fashioned flap over an umpire's call and an indeterminably aged Cuban pitcher with a penchant for cigars...
...about Mahogany-and they have few compliments-the film has just broken Broadway theater records held by Jaws and The Godfather. The receipts have made Berry Gordy Jr., 45, the most powerful new director in the business. That power derives from his triple role as founder, chairman and 95% owner of Motown Industries. The company was founded in 1960, shortly after Gordy quit the Ford assembly line in Detroit. The ex-professional featherweight boxer started with $800 borrowed from his father, a Georgia-born plasterer. Motown grossed $48 million last year on the combined earnings of its record label...
...wouldn't visit Dillon today, as he had on a visit earlier this year. He felt sort of embarrassed about the whole thing now. McInally had graduated amid much hoopla-- he was the first Harvard All-American since Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42 and the owner of a three-year contract with the Bengals-- but in the past four months he hasn't done much except nurse a broken leg, collect coins in his Cincinnati house, read Henry Miller, and draw his full salary (which he won't disclose.) He has yet to wear his Bengals jersey, a jarring detail...