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...desired 3,300 ft. per sec. and has unexpectedly increased the rifle's automatic rate of fire from about 850 shots a minute to 1,000. The result is that the "little black rifle," as the M-16 is fearfully called by the Viet Cong, tends to jam because the powder leaves behind a dirty residue that clogs the faster-moving automatic parts...
...solve the problem, the Army for the past nine months has been outfit ting all M-16s with a new buffer system that slows the rate of fire back to 650 to 850 bullets per minute, thereby reducing the propensity to jam. In closerange fighting, a jam can be fatal. Tests with the WC 846 ball propellant show that a buffer-equipped M-16 now jams approximately only once every 4,000 shots. According to the Army's criteria, one jam every 1,001 rounds is acceptable. To compensate for the debris left behind by the new powder...
...quiet second-floor dining room of the White House, where the President, his Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State discuss the efforts and exigencies of some 500,000 American troops in Viet Nam. They talk about everything from the breechblock of the M-16 (prone to jam) to the accessibility of fresh eggs for artillerymen on the DMZ. Mostly they talk strategy and political ramifications. Thanks to instant communication by satellite, President Johnson can, if need be, keep in direct touch-through existing chains of command-with both Ambassador Bunker and General Westmoreland. The President boasts that...
...Traffic Jam. The problem is the result of volume that has a big plus side in rich brokerage commissions. Compared with last year's record average of 7,500,000 shares a day, trading on the Big Board has surged to a dizzying 10 million shares a day-a level that the exchange just two years ago predicted would not be reached until...
Their rooms overflowed with a collection of 25,000 records. They invited touring musicians to the embassy near Sheridan Circle for noisy Sunday after noon jam sessions. They flouted the racial mores of the day in Washington by staging jazz concerts before mixed audiences. Their mother nervously told friends that the boys were "doing research in American folk music." The ambassador kept telling himself it was a passing fancy...