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...starter, Harry Truman last week jumped on a train and rode up to the Army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md. There, wearing a plastic raincoat against a fine driving rain, he stood bareheaded as guns boomed his 21-gun salute, splashed through puddles to inspect the guard, maneuvered a radio-controlled tank by a switchboard placed in his hand, and watched the U.S. Army show off its newest weapons. Then he hurried back to Washington to keep a date: a family dinner to celebrate daughter Margaret's 27th birthday...
...Aberdeen Proving Ground last week, the Army proudly showed President Harry Truman its newest fighting tools-some so new that details are still secret. Most impressive of the new weapons...
...high-velocity 76-mm. gun packs a lethal punch, and is fitted to a gyroscopic sight which keeps the gun on target over the sharpest bumps. Weighing only 25.8 tons, it can be transported by air, is already in limited production at the Army's Cleveland plant. At Aberdeen last week, Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins officially christened the T-41 the "Walker Bulldog," in honor of the late General Walton ("Little Bulldog") Walker, the Eighth Army's commander, who died in a jeep accident in Korea. Collins, admitting that the first U.S. light tanks in Korea...
...appeared as puzzled as the police. In the last year, 1,700,000 Scots who believe that Scotland suffers from the centralization of government in London have put their signatures to the Scottish Covenant, a petition asking for a Scottish parliament. But serious nationalists are few. One of them, Aberdeen Engineer Gordon Murray, leader of the tiny Scottish Republican Party, which had once boasted that it had designs on the Stone, said: "We would certainly like to take the credit, but I'm afraid we properly can't." Bouncy, kilt-wearing Mrs. Wendy ("Wee Wendy") Wood, leader...
...just couldn't afford to remain amateurs," said their father, David Bauer, who seven years ago gave up his regular job as an Aberdeen, S. Dak. golf pro to give full time to his daughters. U.S.G.A. and financial pressure had forced him to make the decision before Marlene, his most promising pupil, had another chance at the women's amateur title (she was put out in the semifinals last fall). Marlene had been named Woman Athlete of the Year for 1949 in an Associated Press poll, and the girls had dominated the winter circuit, but the next meal...