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Today there are about 500 American snipers in the field-trained on ranges both at home and in Viet Nam. They use finely balanced target rifles, so prized that they are carried around in well-oiled leather cases when not in use. The Marines prefer the bolt-action Remington 700 with a variable power scope; the Army leans toward the National Match M-14 with a similar sniper scope. Both rifles fire a 7.62 mm. 173-grain competition round with a flatter, more accurate trajectory than normal 150-grain military ammunition, and both are deadly at ranges well beyond...
What is it about a book that lands it in the XR cage? The answer lies beyond the tiny locker-room, just past the grimy sink inside the bronze vault fitted for two padlocks and perhaps a bolt...
That is his main point of attack on the government-sponsored studies which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses to prove that people can in fact adjust to the sonic boom. The study which NASA quotes most often, by Bolt, Beranek and Newman, had subjects pushing buttons to activate an artificial boom-creating device. Although the artificial boom was as loud as a real one, the volunteers knew the boom would occur within five seconds after they pushed the button. Even among the fully-prepared subjects, almost half showed a marked increase in heart-beat as a result...
...Communist Philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs makes a distinction between the "disfigured Marxism" that is official party doctrine and what he calls "unfalsified Marxism," while the Yugoslav magazine Praxis warns that effective Marxism "must be completely free of party pressure." And Polish Writer Jan Szewczyk muses publicly whether Marxism is "a bolt of Red cloth that anyone may cut in whatever shape pleases...
...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...