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...specialist in 18th century English literature, Bullitt was widely recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit...
...specialist in 18th century English literature, Bullitt was widely recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit...
...specialist in 18th century English literature, Bullitt was widely recognized for his expertise on the satirist Jonathan Swift, as well as for his wide range of talents and sense of humor. His death came just two months after he filed $5 million lawsuits against each of three tobacco manufacturers and a tobacco trade association, charging that the firms employ deceptive advertising to sell their products and do not give adequate health warnings on packages. His wife said that she had not decided whether to continue the suit...
...like spraying water from a hose." The MAC-10 greatly outnumbers another gun favored by criminals, the compact Israeli-made UZI. That well-built weapon is more accurate, but it is more expensive at around $700 and far more complicated to convert to automatic firing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unintentionally gave the MAC a boost in the underworld in 1979 when it classified the gun as a semiautomatic weapon. The distinction was crucial: semiautomatic guns, which require a separate pull of the trigger for each bullet, can be purchased easily. Automatic weapons must be registered with local...
ARRESTED. Steven Wayne Benson, 34, ambitious, financially and maritally troubled heir to an estimated $10 million tobacco fortune; on charges that on July 9 he planted two pipe bombs in the family station wagon, killing his widowed mother and foster brother and seriously wounding his sister, after his much tried parent, discovering that he had apparently looted some $2 million from her investment account, threatened to cut him out of her will and the family enterprises; in Naples, Fla. Evidence linking him to the crime included his known familiarity with explosives and electronics and a latent fingerprint of his found...