Word: thompson
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...Thompson with 50 rounds of ammo rents for $26. Given the Thompson's firing rate of 30 rounds per 2 sec., the gunner gets less than four seconds' worth of ear-battering bliss. Entrepreneur Day is permitted by federal authorities to sell the machine guns, which cost from $500 to $3,000. For better or worse, he has found 100 buyers in three years. Day, who is convinced that the U.S. faces an impending wave of terrorism, also believes that machine-gun slinging will find nationwide acceptance as a sport. "People go bowling or skiing or skydiving...
Unthinkable? In fact, the current wave of censorship has precipitated two of the most outrageous episodes of book burning in the U.S. since 1927, when Chicago Mayor William ("Big Bill") Thompson, an anglophobe miffed by a view sympathetic to the British, had a flunky put the torch on the city hall steps _ to one of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr.'s books...
DIED. Raoul Walsh, 93, prolific movie director who won acclaim for such silent film classics as What Price Glory? and Sadie Thompson before mastering the high-adventure thriller (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) that helped establish the tough-guy images of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and George Raft; of a heart attack; in Simi Valley, Calif...
...Dorothy Thompson, currently guest lecturers at Brown University, made their remarks to nearly 600 students at Sanders Theater...
While Great Britain and other European nations are becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility of nuclear war, Mr. Thompson said the United States and the Soviet Union continue to ignore the issue. He cited recent U.S.-USSR discussion on limiting the nuclear theater and noted that it excluded any European input. Mr. Thompson labeled the conclave the "meeting of the born-again Christians and the still-born Marxists...