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...carried by present-day G.I.s is only a slight improvement on the heavy, clumsy M-1 of World War II; the M1, in turn, was little different from the Springfield of World War I. They are all large-bore weapons firing heavy bullets that have rapid spin, which aids their long-range accuracy-a quality that has little value in a rifle in a modern war. Production of the old M-14s was finally stopped last spring. The Defense Department has now ordered 85,000 of the Colt arms company's small-bore M16s, most of which will...
Condon was the first to insist that Dixieland jazz was worthy of being lifted out of the dingy cellars and onto the concert stage. He helped inspire the whole cult of jazz critics, who could spin out columns on the flittering trumpet solos of Bobby Hackett. To prove his point, in 1942 Condon promoted a highly successful series of jazz "concerts" at Manhattan's Town Hall. During cool jazz's dominance, Condon doggedly ran his own club in Greenwich Village. He organized the bands, promoted Dixieland indefatigably, arranged for the recording sessions...
...RUBBER. A giant rubber tire, six stories tall, frames a newfangled Ferris wheel popular with youngsters. After loading up, the swinging bucket seats go for a two-trip spin over...
...suffer from a prolonged mechanical adolescence," says Peter Sellers, 38, who loves nothing better than a spin in his 83rd car, a $19,600 Ferrari, which makes a nice change of pace from his 82nd, a $14,000 Lincoln Continental. But 100 m.p.h. can be hard on the heart, and an April cardiac seizure made Peter feel like a very old man, so the wheel has come full cycle, and it's back to puberty down an English country lane for the convalescent comedian and his bride Britt Eklund...
...with two engines, but set into the stubby wings are what seem to be large manhole covers. When opened, each cover exposes a fan 5 ft. in diameter. When valves close off the tailpipe of the jet engines, racing exhaust gases hit the tips of the fan blades and spin them at high speed. Twin blasts of air are forced downward, and their powerful thrust lifts the airplane off the ground. Transition to horizontal flight is made by gradually opening the normal tailpipe and covering the wing fans. So far the XV-5A has been tested only in conventional flight...