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...Chinese Communists added a more intimate instrument of terror: small "citizens' conferences" to review sentences already passed on "enemies of the people." In its first "review" session in Peking last week, an eager citizens' conference approved the jail sentences of 83 prisoners, suspended sentence on two, slapped heavier sentences on 18, and ordered the execution of nine who previously had only been given jail terms. Said Peking's Peoples Daily approvingly: "Not only were the judgments made more exact but the masses' conception of being the masters was also increased by this method...
...Alabama and Mississippi with the slogan "Fight Together-Fight with Your Buddies." It had barely begun training this year at Fort Jackson, S.C. when the Army took 4,300 men from the division, put them in other outfits as replacements. Last week, rumors were flying that a second, even heavier, levy was in the works...
...copies of a number of U.S. B-29s that made forced landings in Siberia in World War II. The B-29s yielded the Russians their design plus the Norden bombsight.* The U.S.S.R. called its well-made copy the TU-4. Unless and until the Russians pour out their new heavier bomber, they are behind the B-36, and even farther behind the new eight-jet B-52 bomber, which, when it gets into production, will be able to hit Russia from 50,000 feet at 600 m.p.h. in any weather. The Russians also lack the vast U.S. battle experience...
...optical sight. Growled one critic: "Send an infantryman off on a foggy morning through wet brush or grass, and then let him try to get accurate fire with a wet, fogged-up sight." Another objection, and a big one, is that other NATO nations use rifles of heavier than .28-cal. (some being supplied by the U.S., free). To switch to a new caliber, retool the plants (in the U.S.) and equip whole armies with the British piece, would cost billions of dollars and years of time, not to mention scrapping huge stocks of .30-cal. rifles and ammunition...
...tons by September 1952, more than eight times the present world output. The immediate goal is to get enough for jet-engine alloys. But Titanium Corp. has its eyes on a far bigger potential market for the metal. Titanium, because it is 56% lighter than alloy steel, and heavier but 300% stronger than aluminum, has been dubbed the "middleweight champ." As the price comes down and production techniques improve, they believe the new wonder metal will have an unlimited future...