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...anything is possible in what Polemicist Robert Sherrill (The Accidental President, The Drugstore Liberal) calls "a phantasmagoria of roscoes." Although the U.S. has no corner on the world's violence, no nation offers its citizens such grand opportunities to display their dissatisfactions with such destructive results. A few random examples, courtesy of Sherrill's research: Dateline New York. Two youths ask a shopkeeper for apple pie. He offers them Danish pastry instead and is shot dead. Ohio. An engineer living near an Air Force base tattoos a number of bomb-laden B-52s with his deer rifles...
This is particularly true of the illfamed Saturday Night Specials, those $25-and-under, small-caliber imported handguns that are flooding our cities at a rate of 2,000,000 a year. They are being used increasingly in muggings, holdups and the random, senseless murders of strangers, which are also on the rise. The 1968 Federal Gun Control Act banned the import of many of these so-called "junk guns." But under pressure from various gun lobbyists, the landing of gun parts was not stopped. This led naturally to the profitable gun-assembly business...
...TAGS by STEPHEN BECKER 307 pages. Random House...
...growth and maturation of every child who was born in England, Scotland and Wales from the third through the ninth of March 1958. Thus the National Children's Bureau, which was set up in 1963 with both private and public funding, has been working on an ideally random sample of more than 15,000 children from every kind of home and background...
...pages. Random House...