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Died. Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, 65, top-rank radio and film (The Arkansas Traveler, I'm from Missouri) comedian of the '30s and '40s; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...
...father, a dentist, moved to Van Buren, Ark. As a boy, Quarles roamed the Ozarks, fished in mountain streams, applied an old country remedy when a playmate was bitten by a snake (the remedy: a raw-chicken poultice). He sang in his high-school glee club with bazooka-playing Arkansas Traveler Bob Burns, graduated at 15, then taught school for $50 a month. In 1912-16 he worked his way through Yale, averaging 90-95. He enlisted, fought in France with the Rainbow Division, came home an artillery captain-and went to work...
...Cuba, the well-heeled former President has been hard at work organizing a revolutionary comeback from his Miami mansion. The current charge grew out of a police raid last December on a vacant filling station at Mamaroneck, N.Y., near Long Island Sound. Stumbling on an impressive cache of grenades, bazooka shells and explosives, the cops arrested four men. One, a New York munitions dealer, said that the arms had been bought by a Cuban named José Duarte for the account of Carlos Prío. Duarte, when questioned, identified himself as one of three Cubans who had been held...
...thunder of Communist artillery fire, the rising, smoky glare of burning gasoline stores. For three days. Dean and his ragged men fought in the streets and alleys and from house to house, contesting every inch of the Red advance. On the third day, Dean manned a new 3.5-in. bazooka, which had been flown in from the U.S. hours earlier. He came back to his command post elated. "I just got me a Red tank," he shouted. He had got a lot more: a Medal of Honor for "excessive gallantry," and three precious days (his order from MacArthur called...
...gunnery range outside Athens one hot morning last week, Greece's King Paul and 60 military men gathered to watch an ordnance test. At a signal from a dark-eyed, black-haired man in a black suit, a 3.5-in. bazooka was fired five times at a sheet of 8-in. armor. It punched five gaping holes in it. When the test ended, a U.S. Army colonel stepped up to the man in the black suit, Bodossakis Athanassiades, and formally approved $17 million in offshore-procurement contracts for him to make bazooka rockets for NATO...