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...Else." The case against Beckwith, a Greenwood fertilizer salesman, hinged on a .30/06 Enfield rifle, found near a clump of sweetgum trees across the street from Evers' home in Jackson on the morning after the murder. A fingerprint of Beckwith's was found on the weapon's telescopic sight...
Prosecution witnesses identified the rifle as Beckwith's. One told of trading Beckwith a Japanese-made sight-identical to the one on the Enfield-in return for a revolver. An FBI expert swore the fingerprint belonged to Beckwith and to "no one else in the world...
...remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with 4,000 of his finest, plus a faultless selection of his most nubile maidens for a bare-breasted scene in which the Zulu warriors on the eve of battle are given the sort of sendoff that might well...
...officials on defense requirements. Soon after, Britain's Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys arrived with a similar British mission. Their most stunning discovery: after five years under Nehru's hand-picked Defense Minister, Krishna Menon, the Indian army was lamentably short of ammunition even for its antiquated Lee Enfield rifles...
...were carrying on negotiations with them. Our credulity and our negligence cost us the initial reverse." Survivors of the attack were still angrily asking why they had been so outgunned by the Chinese, whose light, automatic weapons fired at a rate 20 times faster than the single-shot Lee Enfield rifle, standard in the Indian army. Said a senior Indian officer: "The troops feel they have been let down...