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Well, Rep. Robert G. Torricelli(D-N.J.) did the same thing on Tuesday night. He was supposed to be accompanied by Senator Gary Hart (D-Co.), but Hart got stuck on Capitol Hill. Torricelli spoke at Harvard, not to politic, but to tell us to get working...
...Except Torricelli wants a little more than mom does; he wants one year of our lives devoted to military or civil service. Mom only asked for a few hours and a little effort...
Although MAC sales are now regulated, the Government can do little about the thousands of guns sold under the old classification. Declaring that the MAC "serves no purpose except to kill people," Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey has introduced legislation that would make it a crime to possess a readily convertible firearm such as the MAC-10. The National Rifle Association considers such legislation a restriction of constitutional rights, but groups like the National Coalition to Ban Handguns see it as imperative. Says the coalition's executive director Michael Beard: "There's no legitimate sporting grounds...
...Scientists measure high vacuum in torrs. One torr (named after Italian Scientist Evangelista Torricelli, 1608-47, inventor of the mercury barometer) is the pressure that will support a column of mercury one millimeter high...
...illustrate the emergence of modern concepts through revised experimental methods, President Conant traced for his audience, by means of lantern slides, the seventeenth-century development of the air pump by Torricelli, von Guericke, and Boyle. The perfection of this simple mechanism resulted in a complete revision of the traditional concepts of atmosphere as a vacuum to the modern one of a weighable and elastic entity...