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...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The U.S. Skeet-Shooting Finals, the National Rodeo Championships and a twelve-minute film clip of the 1910 Johnson-Jeffries Heavyweight Champion ship fight...
...solve the problem of close-in fire fights grenadiers are now issued 40-mm. "cannister" rounds whose heavy loads of Double-O buckshot blast out of the barrel as if from a sawed-off shotgun, cutting down everything within a 20-ft. radius. "If you used it on skeet," says one veteran, "you'd take down the skeet tower...
...Speech Center in Dallas, believes that most Americans are all too blissfully ignorant of the hearing hazards in everyday life. "I wear earplugs when I mow the lawn," he says. Country living, he contends, is just as hard on the hair nerves as city life. "Take a group of skeet shooters who have been at it for five or ten years; every single one has got a severe high-frequency loss." Glorig tested the Marine Band and found that about half of its players had damaged hearing. Hi-fi can be a hazard with earphones, which can easily develop...
...Bakal's book is weakened by intemperate tone, Sunday supplement style, exaggerations and errors. It is obviously not true that "guns are made only to put a bullet through a living body, in order to kill." Most ammunition sold in the U.S. each year is shot up by skeet-and trapshooters, rifle-match enthusiasts and wood-lot plinkers-gunmen no more bloodthirsty than golfers or bowlers. Yet that does not detract from the main point: U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle, and the nation would benefit from stricter enforcement of existing laws and sterner controls to keep arms...
...inspection. With more local graduates to choose from--the Porcellian is partial to Old Boston families--the club can always find a wealthy alumnus who will lend his palatial residence and spacious lawns to the club for a raucous afternoon of football and drinking, usually carried on simultaneously. Skeet shooting, bowls, or other forms of leisurely recreation are sometimes provided for the less energetic...