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...officers were shown bullet holes in houses and bullet marks on masonry less than a mile from the conference house (in which no truce talks had been held since Aug. 22). Some flattened .50-cal. slugs were lying on the ground; the Reds did not claim that any person had been hit. In addition to this evidence, U.N. officers had other proof - the record kept by their own radar operators. At about the time the Communists said the attack occurred, U.N. radar had spotted a plane over Kaesong. Investigation showed that...
University maintenance men will place bullet-proof plastic over a stained glass window in the tomb of the University's most generous benefactor, Gordon McKay, "as soon as possible" to protect it from any renewed attacks by vandals, Irving B. Parkhurst, director of the Department of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday...
...farmhouse fuel tank. A moment later, they found the owner of the sedan. Adamic was lying on his back on a couch in an upstairs bedroom. He was wearing dungarees and a windbreaker, with a pillow at his back, a .22 Mossberg rifle across his lap-and a bullet wound just above his right ear. He was dead...
...Defense Department explained Major Holohan's disappearance: it was cold-blooded murder by four of his subordinates. The Defense Department's story was backed up point by point by the confessions of three of the accused men and by the recovery of Holohan's poisoned and bullet-riddled body. The fourth man, Lieut. Aldo Icardi, called the ringleader in the plot by the other three, flatly denied his guilt, stuck to his story that the major had died at the hands of German and Fascist troops...
...been tried out 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...