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...Them Guns!" Yet right down to the end of its existence, the corps produced memorable men and moments. Captain Bill McDonald was a white-haired curmudgeon who stood ready to "charge hell with a bucket of water." Once, accompanied by a lone Ranger, he actually did charge a barracks containing 20 armed and rioting U.S. soldiers, and forced them to "put up them guns!" Another time, when a citizens' committee called for a company of Rangers to quell a mob, Captain McDonald arrived alone. When the citizens protested that only one Ranger had been sent, he replied: "Well...
...developing increasingly sophisticated new equipment. Chevrolet showed off a turbine engine last week at the Manhattan convention of the American Trucking Association, though the current high cost of turbines may delay their widespread introduction for some time. Trucks are now equipped with air conditioning, pushbutton windows, transistor radios, bucket seats and adjustable steering wheels. Most big trucks carry beds with innerspring mattresses for the alternate driver; companies are planning to add bathrooms, pantries and even TV before long...
...Falcon has been restyled into a sporty car for the family man with Mustang spirit but too many kids for bucket seats. It is almost three inches longer (184.3 in.) than the '65 version, has a long Mustang hood and a Mustang-like dropped-off trunk lid. To the Mustang-styled Falcon Futura line, a new sports coupe has been added, with wide bucket seats, 14-inch wheels and the standard Mustang engine. The Chevy II, which G.M, almost abandoned when compact sales began slumping, is lower and wider...
...potential in a rural community, the Riverhead plant and other small ones offer just a drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...
...seems that New England is 19 or 20 inches below the normal annual amount of rainfall; so an inch is "really just a drop in the bucket," the spokesman explained...