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...DART-THROWER. For the future, the most radical rifle is SPIW (Special Purpose Infantry Weapons, pronounced "spew"), which fires darts instead of bullets. Called flechettes, French for "little arrows," the darts are about as thick as pencil leads and an inch or so long. They have tiny fins or thin tails to make them fly straight, and their needle-sharp points allow them to move through the air like supersonic aircraft with much less drag than short, fat, traditional bullets. Several can be fired from the same cartridge, but Army experts prefer to use one per cartridge and have...
...DRUGS. Tranquilizing gas, says Colonel Applegate, will some day be used to calm combative rioters, and dart-injected soporifics will put them to sleep. He concedes that such weapons are still too dangerous to be included in a prudent arsenal of necessary minimum force...
...guard hears the crash of shattering glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum, a religious effigy, and the weapon used to eliminate the faithful guard, a poisoned dart, were both made by pre-Columbian Indians in the jungles of Brazil. "The Maltecs were a mysterious people," somebody murmurs portentously and then goes on to add, "Who knows? A few may have survived, and now they have come to reclaim their...
...times means anything at all, the races Saturday indicate that Cabot has the potential for a very good season. The varsity's clocking of 7:20 over the Henley course was nearly five seconds faster--over a shell length--than M.I.T.'s time in its victory over Yale and Dart mouth immediately preceding the Crimson contest...
...lacks the liquid melody that Gielgud supplies as the voice of Hamlet's father's unseen ghost. His hands punctuate the speeches with percussive rhythm and instinctive grace. He is virile, yet mannerly, as sweet of temper as he is quick to anger, and his wary eyes dart from foe to friend with the swiftness of thought...