Word: pets
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...CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). There's something to cackle about when a small boy's pet hen lays an egg that hatches out a dinosaur. That is the case in "The Enormous Egg," a TV adaptation of Oliver Butterworth's story...
...forcing 34 legislators to reverse their votes and give him a resounding political victory. In an amazing confession for a politician, Rocky later admitted he had passed out warnings to balky assemblymen that he would withhold such "personal favors" as jobs for their friends and his approval of their pet bills if they refused to cooperate. Said he: "Those guys have never seen this side of me before...
Elkins is one of 30-odd men so far who have bought Portatronic Systems Inc.'s new 19-lb. Portable Executive Telephone (PET), the first wireless, fully portable phone. "It's there when I need it," explains Elkins, who believes that it will come in particularly handy when he is driving rented cars or is on location for movies. "The phone is a serious business weapon for me," adds TV Program Packager Larry Spangler, who carries his briefcase phone everywhere, was glad that he did so recently when he received a long-distance call on an outdoor paddle...
Several interesting arguments sum up the NRA's position on gun laws. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people," one of their pet phrases goes. Or, as one NRA member put it, "You can kill someone with a golf club--are you going to ban golf?" It is, of course, true that almost anything can be used as a murder weapon in an angry moment. But few potential weapons are as deadly quick or as accurate from a distance as the gun. Defense is possible against a golf club, but not against a bullet...
...Another pet theme of the NRA--as expressed in the May 1967 American Rifleman--is that gun laws disarm the law-abiding citizen and leave him defenseless against armed criminals, who don't obey gun laws...