Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospitality, another Texas tradition-gun-toting-has given the city a different kind of reputation in the past two years. With 109 murders last year, Houston (1956 pop. 760,000) had the fourth highest total of criminal homicides of any U.S. city; in 1957, with 93 murders to date, pistol-packing Houston is expected to set a new high score for gore...
...main reasons for Houston's murderous pace, as a grand jury recently pointed out, is that "to acquire a pistol is such a simple matter that mere quarrels often become killings." For shooting a pistol in the city, Houston Press Reporter Bob Bray noted in a six-part series on the murder rate last July, the maximum fine is $200-if no one is pinked; in 36 murder cases tried this year, tolerant juries have not voted a single death sentence...
Last week, in a Page One Houston Post story that got to the commercial core of the matter, Reporter John Davis, 35, wrote that "there is absolutely no control over pistol sales."* Reported Davis: "In a shopping tour of gunshops and pawnshops, one thing was apparent: all you need to buy a $29.50 pistol in Houston is $29.50." Backing up his story, the Post ran a three-column cut of a .32-cal. Harrington & Richardson revolver bought by Davis-and a pawnshop's receipt for $29.50. Newsman Davis was not even asked for identification, despite a seldom-enforced, awkwardly...
...Carso hills above Trieste, where he knew every twisted pathway, sheltered wood and hidden gully, Carmelo was leading a couple and their two children to safety when Tito's red-starred "people's guards" opened fire with submachine guns. Carmelo returned the fire with his Beretta pistol, but the next day Yugoslav authorities proudly announced the killing of "the notorious bandit, Jurissevich." Mourning a legend and a hero, a Triestino said: "He really cared about only one thing, personal liberty. He wanted everybody to be free...
...Erick is rejected and she crosses class, family and historical lines to go over to the Reds. Presently, Conrad is killed; his sister is captured and sentenced to death as a turncoat. In a scene of cutting irony the White soldier, who usually performs the executions with his pistol, comes to Erick and reports: "She orders . . . that is, Miss Sophie asks . . She wants it to be you." Erick obliges. His first shot blows half her face away. "On the second shot everything was over." With this, Novelist Yourcenar (Hadrian's Memoirs, TIME, Nov. 29, 1954) contrives to inject...