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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Socialist government stoutly urged all twelve NATO nations to adopt a new British .280-cal. rifle, even though the U.S. argued that its own new .30-cal. T25 has more range and target impact (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill hinted that the Tory government would shelve the .280 rifle...
...King Norodom Sihanouk, who sits more easily on a horse than on a throne. The Cambodians answered with a couple of questions: If things are so bad, why doesn't the Commissioner himself take more precautions, especially since the assassination of South Viet Nam Commissioner Chanson (TIME, Aug. 13)? And why did the Commissioner keep a house full of Vietnamese servants? Said De Raymond: "I am so good to my servants that they cannot betray me." He refused guards...
...rearmament, refused for months to give the industry priorities or adequate price schedules. (One top production official made the fantastic statement that the industry would "get the same consideration as any other voters. Machine tools are no more important than pots & pans.") A series of recent orders (TIME, Aug. 6 et seq.) has changed all this, but there is still vast confusion at the top over how many tools are actually needed, and who should get them first. Says Fred Geier: "If they would just go away and leave us alone, we could do a better production...
...year or more since Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, Hollywood wonder boys, formed their own producing unit at RKO Radio (TIME, Aug. 28, 1950), they have busied themselves with optimistic announcements and tinkering on movies already in production at the studio. Now, at last, they offer two products of their own: a wacky farce and an unabashed tearjerker. This double-barreled attempt to hit the target with old-fashioned bird shot may well succeed at the box office, but it also blows holes into the bright Wald & Krasna promises of original moviemaking...
...squeezed hardest was Harold R. Boyer, boss of the Aircraft Production Board, which runs the biggest part (dollarwise) of the arms program. WThen he went to Washington 13 weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 6), Boyer's first job was to make flying visits to all the aircraft and engine plants, adding up their needs and estimates of the doable. What he found was startling. Schedules asked by the military were so far above the doable that aircraft plants and suppliers were fabricating more parts than could be used in completed planes for months to come. Thus, scarce materials were being...