Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bloody Mush. Basic element in this lethal complex is what the Viet Cong call "the little black rifle"-the light, fast-firing, plastic-stocked M-16 automatic rifle carried by most of the combat troops in South Viet Nam. At 7.6 lbs., the M-16 is scarcely the size of a farm boy's "varmint" rifle; yet it can spray short bursts at the rate of 750 rounds per minute, though reloading time cuts the effective rate to a far lower figure. Its muzzle velocity is so great that within 100 yds.-the range of most Viet Nam fire...
...sidemen, like disciples at the feet of the master, craned in their chairs to watch and listen. Feet dancing, hands whirring like propellers, he sparked a kind of static electricity between cymbals and drums, tossing in an extra riff here, a random bass line there. His rolls were incredibly fast, his technique and rhythmic continuity flawless...
...found himself swamped in acclaim. "The public took to me, and whoosh," he says. "I sang at this little cafe, Chez Tonton, and at the same time I made records. My price went up, and I still couldn't accept all the offers. This was all too fast for the classical guy I was-two, three, four five songs I had to write all at once, and yet I still needed new material...
...filters, but dropped the brand as a failure. The main event is a new turn in the 40-year rivalry between Lucky Strikes and Reynolds' Camels, which are now the second-ranked nonfilters (after Pall Mall). Camel filters were introduced this year to compete with American's fast-growing Lucky filters, and a menthol version is ready to take on Lucky Strike Greens...
...bits of syllables are arbitrarily discarded by a special electromagnetic speech compressor machine. Cramer has found, through extensive experimentation, that the ideal "discard interval" is 14 milliseconds, or only 14/1000 of every second of recorded speech. Yet the result is good comprehension at rates up to 3 times as fast as normal conversation...