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...import. In Houston, where 244 murders were committed in 1967, a tinny .22 known as the "Saturday-night special" figures in a disproportionate number of killings. In Charlotte, N.C., foreign-made light pistols are known as "hand grenades" among police because they are likely to explode in the user's grip. Mass-stamped from light metals, they lose whatever accuracy they have after as few as five shots...
Shaking Hands. Many of the machines promise to pay for themselves in labor-cost savings in as little as two years. For some applications, it is more economical to rent. One Unimation rent-a-robot plan costs the user $2.70 per hour for the first 500 hours and $1.70 thereafter. Moreover, notes Company Vice Chairman Norman I. Schafler, the tireless robots "take no lunches or coffee breaks and do not care about working more than one shift...
...uses the words "pseudo-intellectual", "bearded, and "Negro" as derogatory expletives. He's the only person I've seen use the first term since George Wallace gave it its new meaning of small town paranoia. The author throws in that a drug user is bearded over twenty times in his book when giving no other physical description of the person or of any other people he mentions...
Even though the average U.S. marijuana user is unlikely to get his hands on hashish, let alone refined THC, considerable research must be done into the properties of all cannabis preparations before legalization of marijuana can be rationally considered. Action in this direction is obviously needed; like Prohibition's Volstead Act, current antimarijuana laws only result in the arrest of increasing thousands of young Americans each year without any deterrent effect. The use of marijuana is fast becoming a social phenomenon rather than a legal nuisance, but medical science and the law have not kept up with the change...
...phone is 1) $2,160 and 2) a license from the Federal Communications Commission, which is granted once the applicant proves that he is a U.S. citizen and able to operate the equipment properly. Not that the briefcase portable-really a miniaturized car phone-is difficult to use. The user pushes a row of eleven buttons, one after another, until he finds an open channel (on a busy channel, he can overhear the conversation). He then holds down a transmission switch on the hand set and gives the mobile operator his call, which is completed over regular telephone lines. Incoming...