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...homicides in the U.S. last year were committed with firearms, and that all but one of the 53 police officers killed on duty were gunshot victims. In Dallas, where firearm regulations are practically nonexistent (as throughout all of Texas), 72% of all homicides were committed with guns v. 25% in New York City, where the state's tough 55-year-old Sullivan Law requires police permits for the mere possession of handguns. Says J. Edgar Hoover: "Those who claim that the availability of firearms is not a factor in murders in this country are not facing reality...
...Study v. Punishment...
None of that stuffy oldtime ribbon-snipping for Mayor John V. Lindsay. New York, says His Honor, is a "fun city," and he and his merry men do things that way. Out in Central Park to dedicate a new Fountain Café, Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving dragooned City Greeter Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked...
...time for the 100 meters, .9 sec. off his 400-meter mark, half a minute off his 1,500-meter time. Hodge is better in the field: he has put the shot 11 ft. 2¼ in. farther than Yang, hurled the discus 165 ft. 5 in. (v. Yang's 140 ft. 1 in.). Rooming together in a $110-a-month Santa Barbara apartment (Hodge does the cooking), the two also double as each other's coaches. "I help Russ with his running," says Toomey, "and he helps me with the weight events...
...monetary problems for a banquet at Het Prinsenhof, the royal residence of William of Orange. Presiding as host, Dutch Finance Minister Anne Vondeling toasted his colleagues with an old French proverb: "Point n'est besoin d'esperer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer [One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere]." Next day, by a 9-1 vote, with France's Michel Debré the only holdout, Ministers of the Group of Ten agreed to persevere some more...