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...years before he became President, John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons?which would have kept out of the U.S. the $12.78 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle that killed him in 1963. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, declaring that "It is past time that we wipe this stain of violence from this land," testified in favor of a bill to tighten controls on handguns ?such as the .22-cal. Iver-Johnson eight-shot revolver that felled him on June...
...girl comes up to me with some paper towels. Take these, she says, so you can wipe the vaseline off your face when you're in jail. I haven't got vaseline on my face. I am thinking that vaseline is a big petroleum interest, probably makes napalm, and anyway it's too greasy. I hear over the walky-talky that Hamilton has been busted and that the sundial people are moving to Low and Fayer-weather to obstruct the police. I put vaseline on my face. I also put vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above...
...something to organize a strike about. The man chairing the discussion is standing on a small wooden table and I am very concerned lest he break it. We collect water in wastebaskets in case of tear gas. Some of it gets spilled and I spend my time trying to wipe it up. I don't want to leave somebody else's office all messy...
...attracted Degas. As Mrs. Janis, who put the current exhibition together, has pointed out, Degas devoted so much time to the monotype in order to free himself as much as he desired from the classical constraints of his innate sense of line. With a rag he was able to wipe away ink and compose in broad spaces. Privately modeling in this medium, as in the sculpture, Degas was able to counterbalance his draughtsmanship and realize form and volume. Publicly, the result was the marvelously transitory, captured, psychological quality of his work. This sense of spontaneity made him among the first...
...business engage in extra-curricular activities, spend more time on social life, and are less grade-oriented than the academically-oriented students, who tend to be less suited to business careers anyway. This may well be the case in many circumstances, but it is too easy an explanation to wipe out the basic statistical trend...