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...DART-THROWER. For the future, the most radical rifle is SPIW (Special Purpose Infantry Weapons, pronounced "spew"), which fires darts instead of bullets. Called flechettes, French for "little arrows," the darts are about as thick as pencil leads and an inch or so long. They have tiny fins or thin tails to make them fly straight, and their needle-sharp points allow them to move through the air like supersonic aircraft with much less drag than short, fat, traditional bullets. Several can be fired from the same cartridge, but Army experts prefer to use one per cartridge and have...
...rivers nor mountains. It is the nation's rapidly growing network of oil, gas and product pipelines, which now extends into all of the 49 continental states. Last week the biggest product pipeline of them all, built by Atlanta's Colonial Pipeline Co., slowly threaded its 36-inch ribbon of steel through the swamps and suburbs of New Jersey, two feet underground. Only ten more miles will mean the completion of a 1,600-mile link between Houston and New York...
...pipelines, says Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Com mission, have had "a revolutionary impact on our economy." The revolution started in World War II to thwart tanker-hunting U-boats; the Big Inch and the Little Inch, from Texas to the Atlantic Coast, were the first major lines. Since then, pipelines have grown so fast that they now transport more than 30% of all the energy used in the U.S. They have created a revolution >n home-heating and cooking, provided cheaper industrial power and, less happily, caused severe wrenches in existing coal and oil industries. Twenty...
Touching Bottom? What with all the handicaps, the large infusion of U.S. aid often shows few immediate concrete results, and any progress made is at an inch at a time. As always in this complex and shadowy war, the question of who is winning is difficult to answer. There are the doom criers and the professional optimists, and as usual the truth lies somewhere in between. But Viet Nam's has not been the kind of war that turns on a single battle or successful ambush, dramatic...
...expert but hasty eye. The moon's "seas" do not seem to be covered with deep, fluffy dust, as many lunar experts have argued. If they were, the little 3-ft. craters would not have steep edges. There may be a layer of soft material an inch or so thick, but Dr. Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey, a former believer in deep moon dust, said that he would not hesitate to step on the moon's surface. He was not sure, however, how much weight the moon's material would support...