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Honest Buck Lane freely admits to his readers when a careless deputy gets played for a sucker: "When he returned to his car, his pistol a 44-40 single action, his tear gas billy and 4 boxes of shells . . . was flat gone, it's getting rough when thieves rob the law." But usually, in Lane's letters, the forces of decency triumph. The other day, a fly-by-night peddler who was "after the cotton money" invaded Wharton County: "He said, well I'll buy a license and I said we don't sell licenses...
Cobb's companion, whose name was withheld because of his age, was carrying a toy pistol. He was immediately released to his parents. Police thought that the pair's unusual behavior in the H.A.A. ticket office pointed to an attempt to size up the layout of the place before a holdup, rather than an actual crime...
...they kept the crowds 100 yards from His Majesty and gave him an armored car. But Bao Dai scorned such protection. At Hanoi, which he proclaimed his capital, he walked down a narrow street, right through 50,000 people, any one of whom could have killed him with a pistol or a grenade. He has done this again & again all over the country, walking as calmly as he did when he was stalking gaur...
...eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
...Winchester Repeating Arms company should like "White Heat;" the movie utilizes a good number of its products. During the running of James Cagney's re-entry into the bad-man field, the various principals expend nine 30-30 rifle bullets, three dozen 32 caliber special expanding nose pistol cartridges, one blasting charge, and nine size D tear gas shells...