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...rifle is pulled, a powerful spring drives a cocked plunger into a cylinder, compressing and heating the trapped air to about 2,000° F. Escaping into the firing chamber through a valve, a jet of heated air strikes and ignites the propellant, which pushes the missile through the barrel (see diagram). Because the heated air helps the propellant to oxidize completely, there are no unburned traces left to foul the barrel. V-L test rifles have been fired up to 50,000 times without cleaning or other maintenance...
...conventional rifle is a Rube Goldberg contraption. When the trigger is squeezed on a conventional weapon, the cocked firing hammer strikes a primer cap in the cartridge, setting off a primer charge. That in turn ignites the powder, which explodes and drives the bullet through the barrel but leaves the spent cartridge-and a trail of incompletely burned powder-behind. The cartridge must then be pulled out of the firing chamber by a bolt mechanism and ejected...
...with the older, more inspired Norden in 1923 and in 1939 under Navy commission lifted off the drawing board and into production the compact (12-in. by 19-in.), though enormously complex, bombsight that in the final phase used only two settings, gave U.S. bombardiers their much-touted "pickle-barrel" accuracy; from a duodenal ulcer; in Wareham, Mass...
Quite by accident, they meet the last man on earth-an aged Adam, too feeble to father children. His prize possession is a windup Gramophone with one record, Roll Out the Barrel, a toy the girls covet. At his dwelling-the abandoned Hotel Ozone-the old lady enjoys one final, dreamlike dinner by candlelight. Then she dies, knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down...
Westmoreland, in an unusually warm tribute at change-of-command ceremonies last week in Danang, pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Walt's barrel chest and said: "My admiration for this man is without bounds. General Walt is a Marine's Marine and a soldier's soldier. He's not only big physically but big morally, a man of almost unique professional abilities, an officer of great courage and outstanding leadership attributes...