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...increasing by 2.5 million a year. The result has been carnage. Handguns are the weapons in more than half of the murders committed in the U.S. According to U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, about one of every four aggravated assaults and one of every three robberies involves a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Muzzling Handguns | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...district court denied his appeal; when it was learned that he had been seen toting a gun, a hearing was scheduled to consider revoking his bond. But George Parr, a persistent piece of Western folklore to the end, decided not to go to the hearing-and picked up his pistol instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Death of a Duke | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps on his motorcycle on the way to a home appointment. Like the avenues of another decadent empire, all of the loads in Shampoo's Los Angeles lead to George's beauty salon, where George sets...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...haven't seen this movie yet, take advantage of its timely showing at the Harvard Square. Or if you must, go to see Take the Money and Run on the same bill--you remember, that's the one where Woody Allen tries to escape from prison with a take pistol that he whittled out of soap and it rains--but be sure to stay for Monty Python...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Doubtless, the impact of Jewish political activism has been vast. Shortly after the pistol-packing Arafat addressed the U.N., an unusual public letter to President Ford appeared as an advertisement in the Washington Post. The letter urged firm support of Israel and rejection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: AMERICAN JEWS AND ISRAEL | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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