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...that blazed the trails of the Western frontier was the famous six-shooter made by Colt's Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. One hundred and twenty-seven years after its founding, Colt is still capable of kicking up dust. After a lengthy dispute within the Pentagon over whether to adopt a new rifle, the Defense Department earlier this month granted Colt, still the nation's largest maker of pistols and revolvers, a $13.3 million order to turn out an ingenious Colt rifle that has already proved its worth on a new frontier: the jungles of South Viet Nam. Originally...
...lighter (6.4 Ibs. v. 8.7 Ibs.) than the M-14, a fact that makes it ideal for guerrilla-type fighting and more practicable for the U.S.'s small-statured Asian allies, who find standard U.S. rifles too big to handle. Most of the 104,000 M-16s that Colt will make under the new contract will be shipped to U.S. airborne divisions and Special Forces. If the rifle continues to impress U.S. defense planners-it is already highly popular with the troops-it could become the standard U.S. assault rifle of the next decade, run up millions of dollars...
...Barry responded with a hard-hitting blast at a Kennedy Administration foreign policy that "stands wall-eyed in Berlin and cross-eyed in Paris and blind in Cuba." The Administration policy, he cried, "responds like a high-strung puppy to any mention of colonialism but shies like a frightened colt from the real problems of development in underdeveloped lands. Such nations are free in name only. And the present response to their problems has been a response in name only...
...caliber Colt automatic pistol...
...Speedy Scot: the 38th Hambletonian for three-year-old trotters in a world's record combined time of 5:54 for three heats around the mile track; in simmery, 90° sunshine at the Du Quoin, Ill., State Fair Grounds. Despite his speed, the colt lost the first race by a head to Florlis, who set a one-heat record...