Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alfred Commuiskey of Hattiesburg, Miss. In the White House rose garden one sunshiny day last week, 24-year-old Lieut. Commiskey, greying veteran of more than seven years in the corps, stood at attention while the President read the citation: After the Inchon landing, armed only with a .45-cal. pistol, Marine Commiskey charged two enemy machine-gun emplacements near Seoul and killed seven North Koreans in hand-to-hand fighting. Unscathed then, he was hit a week later by shell fragments in the Seoul railway station, went back into battle after that, was wounded again in December...
...turned the microphone over to a friend, Jose Pardo Llada, who roasted the Autenticos for 20 minutes; Chibás himself made only a short speech. He ended with: "People of Cuba, awake!" Then he fumbled under the coat of his natty, double-breasted white suit, grasped his .38-cal. revolver, squeezed the trigger. The bullet ripped into his belly, shattering his spine...
...level Research and Development Board. He is one of a group of arms men who spent months examining combat reports from Korea and evaluation tests at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Their conclusions: ¶ The World War II-model guns mounted on U.S. interceptors - a .50-cal. machine gun (developed in 1918) and a 20-mm. cannon (developed during the '30s)-cannot shoot down an enemy jet bomber with any efficiency. In Korea, one F-86 pilot had to spray 1,400 rounds of .50-cal. fire at a Russian MIG-15 fighter before it went down...
Stud-Shooter. Remington Arms brought out a new portable stud-driver which uses a .32-cal. blank cartridge to "shoot" a steel stud into such tough construction materials as concrete, steel, brick and asbestos siding. (Studs are used to fasten tough surfaces together or to attach fixtures.) Lighter than most other stud-drivers (5 Ibs.), Remington's Model 450 is also faster, will drive five studs a minute. Price...
...hole in his head. Horrified, she called a doctor, who found that the major had a half-inch, circular hole with blackened edges in his right temple, and a star-shaped hole higher up in the left temple. During the night he had shot himself with his .38-cal. revolver. But instead of taking his life, he had accidentally performed a crude kind of bilateral frontal lobotomy,* a tricky piece of neurosurgery sometimes used to relieve paranoid depression and other psychoses (TIME, May 28). At the hospital, surgeons could only clean up the wounds, remove some small bone fragments...