Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wealth of invention and artistry in the history of firearms is handsomely pictured and chronicled (see color opposite) in One Hundred Great Guns, due to be published next month by Walker & Co. ($19.95). The 384-page volume was written by Manhattan Gun Connoisseur Merrill Lindsay and illustrated by Bruce Pendleton, who spent two years photographing the finest in firearms in museums and private collections around the world...
...check the gas meter. A moment later, one of them brandishes a switchblade knife and suddenly gives the tryst a dreadful twist. Introducing themselves as Tom and Dick-Harry, they giggle, is waiting downstairs-the men truss Morgan with ribbons, and force Kendall to down tumblers of Johnnie Walker and puff on a marijuana joint. Then, mind-blown and stoned, she is twice raped, while her lover writhes helplessly at knifepoint...
...space will be reduced 4% by this change, and by another order that clear space must also be provided for stewardesses to station themselves beside the doors. The cost, say the airlines, may be as much as $700,000,000 less in passenger revenue. But Deputy FAA Administrator Clifford Walker is unconcerned. "I put no dollar sign on this," he said as he announced the changes. "It's a program to save the lives of passengers...
Elvira Madigan is an elegiac pastorale based on the true story of a Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) who deserted his wife, children and career for a hopeless liaison with a circus tightrope walker (Pia Deger-mark). Abandoning their past, ignoring their inevitably tragic future, the two flee to Denmark to spend one delirious summer of happiness. Like stars that burn most brilliantly just before they are extinguished, the couple are renewed by simple pleasures-their bodies, the heady summer air, the wide riverbanks and the small, disciplined forests...
Ultimately, the disillusioned freelancer can return to being an organization man. That was the path taken by the Times's Gerald Walker, and he has no regrets. "During my entire six years of freelancing," he says, "I thought of almost nothing but money, as most freelancers do. Now I expend about one-fifth the energy as an editor, and I go home at 5:30 and forget about it until the next day." But in spite of all the hazards, freelancers continue to avoid the temptations of security. At one point when he was feeling "particularly unstable," Brock Brower...