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Perforated Walls. The revolutionary rifle is the brainchild of Belgian Chemical Engineer Jules van Langenhoven, a gun fancier who began to experiment with new propellants in 1951 in an effort to reduce the weight of cartridges. By 1961, Van Langenhoven had produced a derivative of nitrocellulose that could be ignited by a jet of hot air and that actually eliminated the need for a cartridge. Daisy President Cass Hough got wind of Van Langenhoven's experiments and flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified...
...Brainchild of Frans Q. den Hollander, former president of Netherlands Railway, Trans Europe was born of a desire to make travel truly pleasant. "I am fed up with the bureaucrats at the borders," said Den Hollander. His original plan called for a single type of train that would link a united Europe-with a spur under the Channel to Britain. Although that grand scheme has yet to be realized, Den Hollander has succeeded in eliminating visa-checking delays at borders. Nowadays customs officials do their work aboard the moving trains...
...upper chamber's overriding concern. The measure would give up to $30 million each to the Republican and Democratic parties from $1 contributions checked off federal income tax returns. Though the Senate has already voted three times to repeal it, Long's crusade for his by-blow brainchild has been pressed with a fanatic zeal that has eroded the almost illimitable patience of his colleagues...
Vietnam Summer is Alperovitz's brainchild: a fact he will rarely acknowledge in private and never in public. But when King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the controversial managing editor of Ramparts, Robert Scheer, got together for a press conference, the New York Times did not mention the 29-year-old peace organizer. Even if he did start the whole thing...
Mini-Maginot. To prepare for a major Communist offensive in I Corps, Allied engineers last week were bulldozing a 220-yd.-wide "death zone" across the Quang Tri plain, some two miles south of the DMZ. The project, brainchild of South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, is reminiscent of the two 20-ft.-high walls built just north of the 17th parallel by the Nguyen dynasty in the 1630s in a vain effort to discourage invaders from the north...