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...Nationale d'Armes de Guerre also brought out a new automatic. Dubbed the F.N., it was quickly adopted as the standard rifle of such NATO partners as Britain, France, Canada and Belgium. Rather than fall completely out of step, the Army ordered the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. tested competitively, wound up deciding the T 44 was still the rifle it wanted. From the Army's research and development staff came a recommendation that the T 44 be manufactured (at $95 apiece) in sufficient quantity to replace the M 1 Garand as the Garands gradually wore...
...bigger, more powerful infantry weapon is known as the Armalite (for "light armament"). Firing a .308-cal. round, it has the hitting power and range of the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. but weighs only 6.8 pounds because it is made of lightweight aluminum alloy and plastics, is so soundly constructed that it sacrifices neither accuracy nor sturdiness. Unlike almost any other rifle, the fully automatic Armalite can be manufactured on an assembly-line basis; it discards the traditional drilled steel barrel for a barrel liner made of stainless steel tubing, and swaged, i.e., forced by machine, into...
...power agreement signed in Paris in 1949, these territories, 7,789½ acres in all, were placed under a special and independent administration, pending a final peace treaty. The man chosen to head that administration was Major General Paul Bolle, grizzled and nearsighted after 43 years in the Belgian army, but still straight as a tentpole...
Coffee Helped. With help from borrowed Belgian experts, and an annual stipend of some $50,000 from Brussels, Bolle and his staff learned how to set up a budget and a social-security system, organize a school system and run a miniature railroad. Usually pinched for funds, Bolle conducted government business largely on a cash basis, selling the wood from his forests to Belgian mines for cash and paying cash in turn for the services of neighboring fire departments when trouble struck. Like all independent border states, Bolle's realm was a hotbed of smuggling, and a seized load...
Feature-Writer (A. P.) Charles Mercer wrote his third and best novel after a two-month visit to the Belgian Congo. The book is packed with just the sort of plot that will fill a wide screen (RKO has bought the rights in a quarter-million-dollar deal), and with the mixture of sex and sincerity that appeals to book clubs (it is the Literary Guild choice for October). But the book also has a keenly felt love of place, and reflects deep wonder about the motives of men and women who contrive their own thahus...