Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approximately even terms." Above 25,000 ft., it can outrun and outclimb the F-86, and it can maneuver at supersonic speeds. U.S. pilots claim that with its two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. cannon the MIG is better armed than the F-86 with its eight .50-cal. machine guns...
Britain's Socialist government stoutly urged all twelve NATO nations to adopt a new British .280-cal. rifle, even though the U.S. argued that its own new .30-cal. T25 has more range and target impact (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill hinted that the Tory government would shelve the .280 rifle...
...later, Cal Farley, a 55-year-old ex-professional baseball player (Amarillo, Texas "Gassers") who was in New York for the World Series, offered Richard a new start in life. Farley is president of Boys' Ranch at Tascosa, Texas-a sort of cattle-country Boys Town at which hundreds of homeless or once-delinquent lads have been educated. He asked for custody of Richard until the boy is 18. Richard, delighted at the chance to ride horses, agreed as soon as it was understood that he wanted to take his rubber hammer and rubber hatchet along...
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...officers were shown bullet holes in houses and bullet marks on masonry less than a mile from the conference house (in which no truce talks had been held since Aug. 22). Some flattened .50-cal. slugs were lying on the ground; the Reds did not claim that any person had been hit. In addition to this evidence, U.N. officers had other proof - the record kept by their own radar operators. At about the time the Communists said the attack occurred, U.N. radar had spotted a plane over Kaesong. Investigation showed that...