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Combat makes a stab or two at humor: But for the most part, Combat lacks the wit that is the distinguishing-and redeeming-feature of its parent publication, National Review. Combat makes its debut at a rather advantageous time, when right-wing and anti-Communist sentiment appears to be on the rise in the U.S. Even so, it seems a bit superfluous. Ideology of the right is amply available in the Review; news of the rampaging radicals is generously covered in the daily press. Combat will have to unearth a lot more interesting subversives to be worth $24 a year...
...newsmen? Because Salan only took up arms and the newsmen are asking for free speech. Speech is De Gaulle's special domain. One must not forget that he carried out his hardest campaigns and his most brilliant successes over the air. To touch his microphone is to stab at his heart...
...study made by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang of 588 criminal homicides committed in Philadelphia over a four-year period. He concluded that, given "sufficient motivation or provocation," it makes no difference whether a gun is handy?if not, the offender "would use a knife to stab or fists to beat his victim to death." But Wolfgang has since modified that view. As Detroit Police Commissioner Ray Girardin puts it: "When people have guns, they use them. A wife gets mad at her husband, and instead of throwing a dish she grabs the gun and kills him." Agrees...
...Ammo facetiously suggests registering the genitals of all American males, since there are so many rapes in the U.S.) Still, nothing else can translate a fleeting murderous impulse into action more efficiently or finally than a gun. There is no need for contact, none of the effort required to stab or bludgeon a human being...
...body on the floor of the overdecorated flat. "I think I'm going to be sick," says his young assistant. "No, you're not," the detective tells him. "Tense your muscles and take notes: nude Caucasian male, penis cut off and lying on floor, head crushed, multiple stab wounds, index finger and thumb of right hand missing...