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...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...
...Eugene Cox (Ga.), John Bell Williams (Miss...
Spite & Suspicion. The Poage amendment was beaten. So was an amendment guaranteeing a four-month freeze as of July 7 on all wages and prices (except rents and farm prices), whipped up by James C. Davis of Stone Mountain, Ga. to embarrass the Administration and give the coalition the alibi that they had tried to get "real" controls. The amendment would enrage labor, which is still trying to get wage "readjustments," would freeze all present price inequities which Di Salle would like to correct...
...visiting reporter for the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, with a great show of innocence and a grits-and-gravy drawl, said: "Mr. President, this is my first conference. My impression about you is that you look a lot younger than I thought you did." The President rocked back on his heels and let out a real belly laugh. The Southerner pressed his advantage quickly, "Would you say you are in better shape now than when you first became President...
Died. Hugh Casey, 38, burly onetime relief pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, who set a record in the 1947 World Series when he was called from the bullpen in six of the seven games; by his own hand; in Atlanta, Ga. Depressed by his fall from big-league to semi-pro ball, by a messy paternity suit, a $6,759 tax lien and a reported heart ailment, the onetime "Fat Fireman of Flatbush" telephoned to his estranged wife, told her "I'm all dead inside," then, as she listened, shot and killed himself...