Word: clips
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Nearly every baseball fan knows -whether he likes it or not - that one of the teams in the World Series is al most surely going to be the St. Louis Cardinals, who were rolling merrily along at a .630 clip last week and leading the National League by 11½ games. The other team? That, to understate the case, is a matter of argument. In the first four months of the American League season, no fewer than eight teams either held or shared the lead...
Even though the Federal Reserve has been squirting money into the U.S. economy all this year at a clip ordinarily fit to make loans grow cheaper, the result instead has been a persistent rise in interest rates. Last week American Telephone & Telegraph Co. borrowed $250 million for 33 years at the highest interest cost it has ever paid for long-term bonds: 6.006% a year. A. T. & T.'s old record, 5.95% for $100 million of 20-year debentures, had stood since...
...middle-distance runner of all time. Last month in Bakersfield, Calif., Ryun lowered his own world record for the mile to 3 min. 51.1 sec. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, he zipped through 1,500 meters-120 yds. short of a mile-in 3 min. 31.1 sec., to clip 2½ sec. off the seven-year-old mark set by Australia's Herb Elliott. Experts estimate that Ryun's time for 1,500 meters is the equivalent of a 3-min. 48.5-sec. mile...
...amused by Reader el-Manssour's letter [June 9] questioning the superiority of the Israeli army. I hope you will send me his address so I may clip his letter and mail it to him-between two slices of matzoth for greater palatability...
...True. Even its advocates concede that some M-16 failures may result from a weak spring in the magazine. Though the M-16 clip can hold up to 21 rounds, Marine Corps Commandant Wallace Greene recommends loads of no more than "17 or 18 rounds." Some Marines have used an old World War II trick to speed up reloading: they tape two magazines together upside down; after one magazine is burnt out, it can be swiftly inverted and the other inserted. The added weight of the second magazine, however, is enough to draw the lip of the first magazine...