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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Arsenal in Action | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHEN NOISE ANNOYS | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guns Unlimited | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: College's Final Clubs Enjoy Secluded Life In a World that Pays Little Attention to Them | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

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