Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stunned by a crash landing that sheared the wings and tail from his Skyraider, Dengler stepped bleary-eyed into a world of muck, vines and violence that stood in odd contrast to his tidy, air-conditioned stateroom on the carrier Ranger. Abandoning his radio, .38-cal. pistol and dehydrated rations, Dengler ducked into the bush-but was jumped by Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...
Cautious & Stubborn. Johnson, a determined but cautious man. was galvanized into action by Truman, a stubborn man. But Johnson now faces the formidable task of getting any new fis cal measures through a man who is determined, cautious and stubborn. He is Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, whose power is such that he virtually single handed held up a much-wanted tax cut during the Kennedy Administration. Chairman Mills has bluntly told the White House that he will do his best to block any congressional action on taxation this year, and that he rejects...
Muffled by the deafening downpour, a company of Australian reinforcements in armored personnel carriers crept over surrounding hills undetected by the V.C., opened up with .50-cal. machine guns, cutting down 25 Reds with the first volley. Then Australian, New Zealand and U.S. artillery found the range. When the smoke cleared, the Communists were in full flight, and 220 Viet Cong dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened...
...when he rented a mover's dolly from an Austin firm. Then, deciding that he needed even more firepower, he went to Sears, Roebuck and bought a 12-gauge shotgun on credit, sawed off both barrel and stock. He visited Davis Hardware to buy a .30-cal. carbine. And at Chuck's Gun Shop, he bought some 30-shot magazines for the new carbine. All told, he had perhaps 700 rounds...
...pistol can get one. In Washington, D.C., police checked 200 persons who had received mail-order guns, found 25% of them had criminal records. In New Jersey, the Paterson Morning Call last November marked the second anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination by ordering a .38-cal. revolver by mail in the name of L. H. Oswald. It was promptly delivered...