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...nationwide programs, which offer instruction in the proper use of firearms and safety in hunting. Nevertheless, the N.R.A. is too soft on gun control for some gun supporters. They have formed the National Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which is striving to repeal the mild 1968 gun law. Some 60 members of Congress have signed...
...build up to a three-watt, 50,000-volt charge leaps through the closed circuit. The shock instantly disrupts the victim's nervous system, his eyes close, and he slumps to the floor jerking spasmodically. When the current is turned off, muscular control returns immediately, but a mild state of shock persists...
...that matter, the Boy's error gave the A's a superfluous run. The three A's pitchers allowed the Brewers only four hits after the first inning. Rollie Fingers, of the 1890's mustache and 1970's rubber arm, put down a mild Milwaukee rally, a one-out single in the ninth, to end the game...
...concession to the teachers in cutting the school day. "Parents don't like the shorter days either," she added. Stephen Desposito, principal of Intermediate School 59 in Queens, said simply that the board seemed to be working with "funny money" that it might not have. That was a mild way of saying that the union had extracted a dangerous settlement from a city on the verge of bankruptcy...
...copy guarantee; the magazine last month began offering partial refunds to advertisers. Playboy, however, still makes money, while Hefner's nonpublishing sidelines mostly do not. Playboy Enterprises, Inc., the parent firm, last week announced its third consecutive losing quarter. Playboy is considered by its competitors as still relatively mild. "Bondage is where the action is right now, but we have been slow to pick up on it," complains one Playboy editor. No need to, argues Editorial Director Arthur Kretchmer: "We still have the class act of the magazine business. The answer is not more skin...