Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reliable than their rockets and mortars is the Viet Cong's trusty, Russian-made AK-47, a stubby automatic assault rifle that is more rugged and dependable than the Americans' skittish M-16 rifle. The AK47, now widely used by Viet Cong troops, fires a 30-round clip compared with the M-16's 20-rounder, is light and quick-loading and has fewer parts to jam. It is so efficient that some individual U.S. soldiers have taken captured AK-47s for their own use in battle, relying on captured arms caches to keep themselves in ammunition...
...concessions in the huge Sarir field. To exploit its holding, BP Bunker Hunt has built a capacious crude-oil pipeline leading from its rigs in the Sarir to Marsa Hariga. Running 320 miles, the 34-in., multimillion-dollar line could ultimately carry almost 1,000,000 bbl. at a clip. It is buried six feet beneath the dunes in order to keep the oil liquid during the chill desert nights. The pipeline runs past a British airbase- and deliberately close to the Egyptian border. If necessary, British soldiers will thus be better able to guard against sabotage...
...contrivance on which "your deer looks so much better than when dragged over the ground." The catalogue also promoted Bean's two highly successful books. One of them, Hunting, Fishing and Camping, a slender, lore-packed manual, sold 150,000 copies, contains duplicate chapters so woodsbound readers can clip parts out, still leave the tome intact. The other, a rambling, disjointed autobiography, is entitled simply My Story...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The U.S. Skeet-Shooting Finals, the National Rodeo Championships and a twelve-minute film clip of the 1910 Johnson-Jeffries Heavyweight Champion ship fight...
...have the big man. The Tigers' Chris Thomforde, a 6 ft. 9 in. sophomore who knocked a two-year starter out of the lineup, has been averaging 15.8 points and 13 rebounds per game. Penn's Tom Mallison, at 6 ft. 10 in., is moving at a 10.5 scoring clip...