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...Sullivan's Committee for Hand Gun Control maintains that bullets are obviously dangerous objects that should be controlled by the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. Petitioning the Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington, D.C., the group asks that bullet sales be restricted to the police, the military, and licensed pistol clubs and security guards...
...Italy's arms exports, totaling $240 million last year, include helicopters for Iran (built under license from the U.S.), frigates for Peru, tanks for Pakistan and counterinsurgency aircraft for Zambia and South Africa. James Bond's favorite pistol, the snub-nosed .25-mm. Beretta, is still sold all over the world. La Spezia's Oto Melara company has tested a high-speed missile-launching hydrofoil designed to protect narrow bodies of water. Italian arms appeal to nonaligned nations since Rome attaches no political strings to sales...
...been broke more than once, drives a '68 Ford after going three years without one and wheezes like a train when he walks around because he has second-stage black lung. He lives in a place where school teachers quote from the National Enquirer and where the deputy sheriff pistol-whipped him once when he had that black kid visit. A place where in some countries they didn't even need draft boards during the war because young men were enlisting like Tennessee volunteers; where eight-year-olds with distorted inbred faces and rifles in their hands stare blankly...
...tells how Sizemore deals with his fellow workers in a locker-room sort of way (Vecsey, who used to be a sportswriter until he went to cover Appalachia for The New York Times, gets into the camaraderie of the miners' bathhouse). But the powerful images are still the pistol whipping, and the time one of Dan Sizemore's neighbors shot the dog belonging to his retarded son (Blackie, as Vecsey tells us several times), and the silent looks when they pack up to visit their draft dodger sons. Vecsey responds to the sense of alternation most, just as he stresses...
...Cornell could be hot as a pistol," Harvard swimming coach Ray Essick said yesterday. "They've won five meets in a row and we're going to have to go with a leaded lineup. We just can't afford...