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...pistol team Wednesday won its first match since its organization last year when it out-shot the Mystic Valley Gun Club, 1005 to 1008. High scorer for the match was Kirby Scherer with 274, followed in order by Henry Pahl, Colin Doane and Lloyd Roberts...
...symbolical ritual." By selling film rights to hangings, the master executioners could be rewarded with more than their present fee (about $44 a knot). Moreover, says Duff, hangings should be broadcast for their highly dramatic sound effects, such as "the crack like a muffled shot of a small pistol which indicates the official breaking of the criminal's neck...
...Your Jan. 10 article "The Pistol and the Claw" raises some interesting questions. Will we learn in time that those who live by the sword inevitably perish by it ? An alternative was suggested several thousand years ago, namely, "doing unto others as we would have them do unto us." Impractical? May be so, but it works. The hardest of criminals will respond favorably to such treatment when genuine and done in the absence of a "big stick" behind one's back...
...breakthrough into new military ideas was long overdue. In the last decade the U.S. spent $327 billions on defense, but had no military doctrine for anything short of World War III. The age of the double deterrent, of the pistol and the claw, is not a pretty prospect. But it is a prospect-and one around which a rational military policy can be built...
...Council gave complete approval to the methods the crow, football, pistol, ski, and fencing teams use in issuing letters. The first two are major sports; the fast three minor. The Council found complaints with the tennis, squash, and cross-country teams' methods of giving letters and in seeking corrective measures. All three sports are minor...