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...violent crime, Ford failed to endorse measures that many experts believe are necessary to stop that increase. He declared himself "unalterably opposed to federal registration of guns or gun owners." He did, however, make one important proposal: a ban on the manufacture, assembly or sale?though not the possession???of "Saturday night specials," the cheap, easily concealed pistols that have been flooding American cities and turning thousands of quarrels and robberies into murders...
...crumbs. Reared on the abrading edge of self-sufficiency, he was the second son of Morris Jawetz, a former Talmudic scholar in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Ida Littman, daughter of a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman from Vienna who abandoned his family. Morris' proudest possession???about his only one?was his name; he traced its origin to a Biblical family of scribes that lived at Jabez (/ Chronicles 2: 55) near Jerusalem. He changed its spelling after arriving...
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