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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...
...friend, Jose Pardo Llada, who roasted the Autenticos for 20 minutes; Chibás himself made only a short speech. He ended with: "People of Cuba, awake!" Then he fumbled under the coat of his natty, double-breasted white suit, grasped his .38-cal. revolver, squeezed the trigger. The bullet ripped into his belly, shattering his spine...
...picture shows that though Audubon gave up his adventurous wanderings through the U.S. wilderness, settled on a peaceful Manhattan farm in 1842 with his long-suffering wife and children, even in captivity he kept the trigger-quick technique he used when he caught wild birds on the wing. Attached to the back of a meticulously detailed painting of a thoroughly domesticated rooster and his hens is a faded, handwritten note...
...Joey after TIME told her story (July 19, 1948), you remember her heroic work as an underground agent in the Japanese-run Philippines. She smuggled food, medicine and messages to U.S. prisoners of war, mapped enemy fortifications for the Air Force, once walked 56 miles through lines of trigger-happy sentries to report a mine field where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila. Though she took many long chances, the Japanese never caught up with her because they were always afraid to search her; through her ragged blouse they could see the dreaded lesions of leprosy...
Inside Siberia. Not far from where the new Trigger was being fitted out at Groton, Conn, last week, a special section of the Electric Boat Co. yard known as "Siberia" was under a tight, 24-hour guard. There, civilian sub builders and the Navy's top engineers and designers are engaged in a giant gamble. They are working, not on a U.S. version of the XXVI, but on what the Navy hopes will be an answer to Russia's super-subs: an atomic killer submarine. Longer and wider than present-day subs, she would be powered by virtually...