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...WEAPONS: Production of the new 3.5-in. bazooka is so high that cutbacks have been ordered. Tied in with the airborne's effort to lighten all equipment, several new items have been developed. Among them: a new entrenching tool, four pounds lighter than the old; an aluminum-nylon helmet, 8% lighter; new tropical combat boots, 3/4 Ib. lighter. Also due to be lightened: rifles, pistols, machine guns and ammunition...
Time for Ernie (weekdays, 3:15 p.m., NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...
Cartooning: The Arizona Republic's Reginald ("Reg") Manning, for his cartoon, "Hats," contrasting the sleek toppers of U.N. diplomats with a G.I.'s bullet-punctured helmet...
Leonard's interceptor mission began at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, where he learned the working details of the radar warning net. After dinner he put on coveralls and crash helmet, headed for the "ready shack." There he was shown how to operate the plane's radar panel, which would pick up the other F94 sent out to be "enemy" and then guide the pilot in for the "kill...
...usual protective gadgetry: buoyancy gear, oxygen mask, parachute, etc. With such equipment bulging from his 205 lbs., he needed the help of five men to fold him into the tiny radarman's cabin behind the pilot. When they lowered the bullet-proof canopy, it banged against his helmet, pushed his face within six inches of the radar panel...