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...still the big name in BB guns, but the company is now preparing to market a jet-age air rifle that is definitely not for small boys. Almost as powerful as the standard .22-caliber rifle, the weapon is nearly recoilless, virtually jamproof, and fires bullets without cartridges, primer charge or powder. Daisy is confident that it will be the forerunner of a new generation of weapons for both civilian and military...
Compared with the V-L, the conventional rifle is a Rube Goldberg contraption. When the trigger is squeezed on a conventional weapon, the cocked firing hammer strikes a primer cap in the cartridge, setting off a primer charge. That in turn ignites the powder, which explodes and drives the bullet through the barrel but leaves the spent cartridge-and a trail of incompletely burned powder-behind. The cartridge must then be pulled out of the firing chamber by a bolt mechanism and ejected...
...intensely loyal readers, many of whom are all but illiterate and most of whom read nothing else, the Courier has developed a peculiar journalese that wavers between first-grade primer and Time magazine style. Efforts to render complex political shenanigans comprehensible lead to headlines like "Who's Doing What to Whom in Phenix City?" An interview with a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor last year contained this passage: "He sprinkled the crackers into his soup. Not too many crackers, and not too few. It was a middle-of-the-road sort of sprinkle...
...before moving to Berkeley in 1965. He has four books to his credit, including a study called The Revolution in Psychiatry that California Social Psychiatrist Martin Hoffman rates as "one of the most important theoretical works written in psychiatry in the last quarter-century." Becker has also written a primer on Zen and a critique of U.S. education that the Daily Californian praised as "a manifesto for academic revolution...
...those who have yet to understand McLuhan, this book is a provocative primer. In both text and pictures, it uses the zany Zen technique of shattering orderly thought with irrational accident. Even the title is a gag, deriving from McLuhan's earlier pronouncement: "The medium is the message." That meant, as any anthropologist might have put it, that technology predetermines social structure; hence, tools prefigure the psychology of their users. By punningly altering the slogan, McLuhan merely means that "all media work us over completely...