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Revelations that weapons from Virginia were flooding Washington, D.C. and New York streets prompted Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder to action. He proposed a bill that would limit an individual to one handgun purchase per month--with a waiver for serious collectors. It seems a matter of common sense; why would an individual need more than 12 handguns a year...
Virginians have been anxious to change their state image as the gunrunning capital of the East Coast and reduce the hauls taken in by police from the streets, such as these found in Richmond. And so, urged on by Governor L. Douglas Wilder, both chambers of the state's legislature passed new gun- control legislation last week. While slight differences in the two versions of the measure have to be ironed out, both contain a central feature that perhaps only the National Rifle Association could consider unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able...
...actress, a tremendous tensile strength that helped anchor the unforced ebullience of her personality. When a film required it, she could really dig in her heels. Billy Wilder's Sabrina, which quickly followed Roman Holiday, showed her torn between the smooth bachelor blandishments of William Holden and the tempered, literally businesslike attentions of Humphrey Bogart. Hepburn made the right choice -- the heart's choice -- as she would continue to do in all her best-remembered movies. Past the sorcery of her sensuality, with its inviolate innocence, and past her great beauty, Hepburn wooed and won her audience because she always...
Safire finally got one right in June with Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, even though Wilder was the first to drop...
...shuttle program is more organized than it was a few years ago when students had greater control and "things were a lot wilder," Auferio says. While student managers used to assign shifts to other students, Aufiero has taken over that responsibility and says he has added more stability to the program...