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Because of its short (1¾-in.) barrel the model RG 14 revolver that Hinckley used cannot be sold legally in the Miami area. The one that Hinckley bought, serial number L731332, was shipped by Southern Gun distributors of nearby Opa-Locka, Fla., directly to Rocky's Pawn Shop on Elm Street in Dallas. This cluttered emporium, only a quarter of a mile from the site where President John Kennedy was shot 17 years ago, has a sticker on the door that reads GUNS DON'T CAUSE CRIME ANY MORE THAN FLIES CAUSE GARBAGE. In the window...
...Soviet Union and East European nations to provide military hardware. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence was a series of photographs of a tractor-trailer said to have been captured in Honduras. Underneath the trailer's false bottom was a cache of about 150 M-16 assault rifles. Serial numbers on U.S. weapons recovered from the guerrillas have been traced to the arsenal left behind by U.S. forces in Viet...
...gave information to his guards-just what they sought from him he did not specify. He did not discover that his mother Wynona was actually alive until he phoned home last week. He told her that he had refused to tell the guards anything but his name, rank and serial number. As a result, he was beaten and one of his teeth was knocked out. Most of the hostages were allowed 20-minute walks outside their rooms once a week without harassment, but Jerry Miele, 42, a communications officer, had to beg for his walk. When...
...begins to wonder: Do people in Hollywood have affairs? In the year of Serial, Middle Age Crazy, Loving Couples and now A Change of Seasons, one begins to think not. If they did, then surely some of the wry worldliness of the French, who have always known how to make movies about affairs, would creep into the American equivalent. That's what these stories of middleaged, middle-class sexual adventure require. Instead, the guilts alternate with the smirks, and the only acceptable mood in which the characters may venture forth is a tiresomely adolescent...
This theme of serial selves, of second and third acts in American lives, also appears in Mark Helprin's The Schreuderspitze, in which a man leaves his family for what appears to be a Wanderjahr in Europe. He transforms himself into a mountain-climbing machine, conquers an Alp and heads home with what some readers may interpret as a jogger's expensive high...