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Sound-Proof Helmet. All these effects can be felt with ordinary jet engines. Afterburner noise makes them more intense and adds some effects of its own. Men exposed to an afterburner's sound field for the first time are overwhelmed by terror and panic. They want desperately to escape, or as one victim put it, "to roll yourself into as small a ball as possible...
Players will be allowed to draw uniforms and pads for voluntary individual spring workouts, although Jordan said he would advise against practicing in full uniform. "A sweatsuit, helmet, and shoulder pads ought to be enough," he remarked...
...target contests, the new .30-cals. poured out fire twice as fast and just as accurately as the Army's standard 30-cal. M-1 Garand rifle. At 100 yds., their steel-core slugs plowed through half-inch armor plate; at 1,200 yds. they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines in less than two seconds. When the demonstration was over, even such hard-to-please riflemen as Hatcher and Edson agreed that...
Along with dozens of federal and state inspectors who had come to West Frankfort, Ill. to investigate the pre-Christmas coal-mine blast which killed 119 miners was grizzled old John L. Lewis. He put on a helmet, headlight and work clothes for a personal underground inspection. Eight hours later, soot-streaked and weary, he came to the surface, where photographers got a picture that would show other union miners that the Boss still knows his way around the pits...
Dean was last heard from on the northern outskirts of Taejon. A survivor heard him say: "I just got me a Red tank." After the city fell, Dean's helmet liner was found in a rice paddy...