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...proved to be an odd-looking, straight-stocked, semi-automatic (i.e., one shot for each trigger pull), weighing 8 Ibs. and equipped with an optical sight. On the firing range it seemed fairly impressive: it rattled off 84 rounds per minute, ripped steel helmets at 600 yards and punched through 46 inches of planking at 100 yards. The .280 has a 20-round clip; the .30-cal. U.S. Garand only an 8-round clip. But the .280 has less punch and less range than the heftier Garand or the Russian Tokarev (caliber .299994) rifle-and given the new Garand...
...defection from Moscow the most hopeful development in the battle between Russia and the West; what is implied is that Yugoslavia's Tito-and future Titos elsewhere-may do the U.S.'s job of defeating Communism. U.S. policymakers particularly cherish the notion that Mao Tse-tung will pull a Tito, and at least partly undo the greatest political disaster which the West (largely because of the blindness and timidity of U.S. policy) has suffered in the 20th Century, i.e., the passing of 450 minion Chinese under the sway of Moscow...
Then the Bezpieka sounded the alarm. Guards rushed up, tried to pull the four out of the plane, but two of the men and the girl beat the guards off while the pilot gunned the rachitic engine, and got the plane rolling across the field. The guards' bullets nicked the craft, but the doughty little plane took off, anyway...
...infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does its bit to pull British North Borneo out of the soup economically...
...that natural gas prices were so low that FPC control was not needed. It argued that the threat of FPC control was checking expansion of the gas industry; oil companies were capping their gas wells instead of going into natural gas. Some oilmen also feared that FPC might pull the whole petroleum industry under its control as a public utility...