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...role in the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Headquarters, and is now living in Miami Shores, Fla. As a felon, Hunt is barred by law from owning a firearm. The former CIA agent appealed last April to state authorities, telling them he wanted a shotgun to carry on a family tradition -hunting. Last week, the writer and sometime lecturer also declared that he needed a gun to protect his home. Pleaded Hunt: "All of my neighbors are armed. Everyone I know is armed." Before making an exception to the gun-ownership law, Governor Robert Graham had to know...
...while boasting a voice like an "ungreased squeak," Teddy was given a large pair of spectacles and a 12-gauge double-barreled shotgun. With his new glasses he discovered birds for the first time. With his new toy he shot them by the hundreds. This metaphor of myopic aggression dominates the book...
...Rough Rider, pronouncing life to be bully, went out on horseback in the morning, with his latest glasses and his latest shotgun, and fired away at everything living. McCullough scrupulously follows his subject. But because of Teddy's determined blindness of heart, he cannot love him or quite forgive him. -By Melvin Maddocks
...billion this year, and scores of weak institutions could easily collapse. In 15 months the number of S and Ls on the FSLIC'S list of "problem cases" has jumped from 79 to 246. Last year the agency saved eleven insolvent S and Ls by ar ranging shotgun mergers with healthier institutions. These rescue operations cost the agency $1.3 billion out of its $6.5 billion reserve fund. The bal ance sheet at Economy Savings, however, was apparently so dismal that no takers could be found...
...places a black man couldn't. But I really learned to love him. He was beautiful, just so damned good. I had never met a man like him." But when they announced their marriage in 1950 - three years after it had actually occurred - Hayton had to buy a shotgun and build a wall around their house to protect them from hostile Hollywood neighbors. Those years of humiliation and rejection left angry scars that are raw to this...