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...before, in 1950 tests at Fort Benning, Ga. by a joint U.S.-Canadian-U.K. board, and failed to carry the day. The U.S. didn't like the lighter-powered bullet or the optical sight. Growled one critic: "Send an infantryman off on a foggy morning through wet brush or grass, and then let him try to get accurate fire with a wet, fogged-up sight." Another objection, and a big one, is that other NATO nations use rifles of heavier than .28-cal. (some being supplied by the U.S., free). To switch to a new caliber, retool...
...Malik in New York. Russia sharply protested when in October he sent out a seven-point memorandum to the twelve member nations of the Far Eastern Council. But Dulles had seized the initiative; the U.S. was suddenly taking the offensive for peace, not merely trotting around putting out brush fires which Russia...
...doesn't Dentist Mack try to spend a few nights with a hay rake attached to his own teeth to find out how the children feel when they accidentally brush their tongues against that torture contraption while sleeping...
...Pink-faced TIME, held hard, awards Reader Browne the brush...
...business and ties up plenty of capital. Weyerhaeuser and other big lumber companies (e.g., Crown Zellerbach) spend about $37 an acre for such permanent improvements as roads and wide firebreaks, shell out another 35-60? an acre every year for taxes and to maintain fire patrols and clear brush...