Word: carcano
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...never got his day in court, and though he denied any guilt, there could be little doubt of Oswald's guilt. FBI agents checked the gun and its serial number, traced it to the Chicago mail-order house and found the order slip. It was a 6.5-mm., Carcano, bolt-action surplus Italian military carbine. It had been sent to an "A. Hidell" at a post-office box in Dallas. That name and box number were found later among Oswald's effects. Serial number records showed that Oswald's was the same rifle that had been found...
...British, three French), four in France, one in Belgium, and the equivalent of about three divisions in Italy. Some of these are next to worthless, almost all are underequipped. Some French units are armed with aged Hotchkiss machine guns saved from World War I. Italian soldiers have 1891 Mannlicher-Carcano rifles which as long ago as 1915 they called "humanitarian rifles" because they usually missed the enemy...
Married. British Army Major John Jacob Astor, 26, youngest son of out spoken Tory M.P. Lady Astor (without her approval) ; and Anna Inez ("Chiquita") Carcano, 23, vivacious daughter of the Argentine Ambassador to Britain; in London...