Word: cal
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Intercollegiate champion Ben Heckscher will be in the number one position for the third straight year. He won handily in the varsity's 1955 win over McGill and should win again today. In the second position, Cal Place will be occupying that spot for the second year and likewise should repeat his win of last winter...
Springfield's answer to the demand for more firepower was the T 44, a fully automatic, .30-cal. rifle weighing one pound less than the unwieldy, semiautomatic 9½-lb. Garand, and carrying 20 rounds in its magazine clip to the Garand's eight...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. patent attorney and engineer, whose hobby is guns. After Sullivan had produced a successful experimental model, he was taken under the wing of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. and turned out 30 copies of a highly efficient, 2¼-lb., unsinkable, survival-kit, .22-cal. rifle for the Air Force's Strategic Air Command crews...
...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...
...largely to one man, Hollywood's Oscar-winning Producer-Director Frank Capra, 58, who spent four years making the show. "It was a labor of love," he says. "I just wanted to prove science could be diverting." To Italian-born Showman Capra, a chemical-engineering graduate of Cal Tech, Mr. Sun is no documentary but "a show, with accurate physical facts-a fresh attempt to glamorize science." So are his three upcoming TV ventures for Bell: Hemo, The Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, treated as "a detective story...