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...never did fit the description, and I still don't." Coaches were unprepared for Fischer in other ways too. "I spent the first couple of days in camp just running around in my shorts," he recalls. "Eventually, they went to a college and found some pads and a helmet that fit me. The first exhibition game, though, my pants fell down below my knees...
Generations of G.I.s have learned to use the bowl-shaped M1 combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design...
...Defense Department decides the new helmet is worth close to $50 v. $15 for the Ml, the old pot could soon go the way of Willie and Joe and the draft...
...goggles last week, he climbed beside three-time World Champion Jack Brabham. As the Alfa touched speeds of 100 m.p.h., the announcer boomed: "Now he's doing a prime-ministerial lean to the left." The usually right-leaning P.M. and his driver came in third. Whipping off his helmet, an exhilarated Fraser declared: "If I wasn't Prime Minister, I would love to devote more time to the sport...
...Street in Harlem. At an appliance store on 105th Street, two boys about ten years old staggered along with a TV set, while a woman strolled by with three radios. "It's the night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore a Day-Glo blue riot helmet. "You grab four or five, and a hundred take their place. We come to a scene, and people who aren't looting whistle to warn the others. All we can do is chase people away from a store, and they just run to the next block, to the next store...