Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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S.N.C.C. Leader H. Rap Brown emerged undaunted last week from four days of imprisonment in New York City. Arrested for transporting a .30-cal. carbine over state lines while under indictment for his role in the Cam bridge, Md., riots the previous month, Brown was released only after his bail had been reduced from $25,000 to $15,000 (bondsmen would not put up the bail, which had to be raised in toto among S.N.C.C sympathizers). "If President Johnson is worried about my rifle," he said on leaving jail, "wait until I get my atom bomb...
...York, S.N.C.C.'s 23-year-old nonstudent advocate of violence, H. Rap Brown, could also have used some cash. At week's end Brown was behind bars, unable to raise $25,000 bail, after federal agents seized him for transporting a .30-cal. semiautomatic carbine across state lines on flights to and from New Orleans while under indictment in Maryland for inciting a riot. On the latest charge he faces a maximum of five years in the penitentiary and a $2,000 fine. Meanwhile, Stokely Carmichael, Brown's predecessor as chairman of S.N.C.C. was reported en route...
Some of the Twins resent Cal's crack down. Pitcher Grant, one of the late-to-beds fined by Ermer, wants to be traded. But most respect his toughness, and the team's new dedication to duty ("They're playing for their lives," explained a Minnesota newsman) shows in the box scores. Since Ermer took over, the Twins have played 25 games that were decided by one run-and they have won 14 of them, including a 3-2 victory over the White Sox last week that won them the league lead...
...helicopter pilots, he is also developing a 23-lb. vest (too heavy for infantrymen) with 14 layers; the eighth layer has stopped submachine gun slugs fired from 15 yds. In Viet Nam, helicopters are armored with titanium that stops snipers' .30-cal. bullets at 200 yds. But "any closer," says Davis, "and the bullets go right through." He proposes lining helicopters with 14-layer nylon, which can increase the amount of protection by 40% while reducing the cost of the armor by about the same amount...
...Plane Designer Alexander de Seversky and herself a notable aviatrix, a New Orleans socialite who in 1930 took up flying to surprise her husband, by the late '30s was expert enough to help test-fly his planes until a heart condition grounded her; by her own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in Northport...