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Irritated when Japanese civilians scrambled recklessly across the U.S. Army's Somagahara rifle range near Tokyo in search of scrap metal, G.I. William S. Girard one day last January decided to get tough. He shoved an expended cartridge into the grenade launcher on his rifle, slid a blank into the rifle, and fired in the general direction of five civilians 30 yards away. The cartridge hit a 46-year-old woman in the back and killed...
...LACROSSE MISSILE, U.S. Army's surface-to-surface bird designed to carry a nuclear or conventional warhead about ten miles for close ground support, is going into large-scale production by Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin. Missile and truck launcher can be airdropped to troops, will probably be delivered to Army units by summer...
...rich, Marx has a "Space Satellite Launcher" ($3) that propels the plastic satellite skyward by a hand-crank mechanism; Irwin Corp. a "Skeet Shoot" ($4) that throws targets into the air, for a rifle loaded with darts; and Carrom Industries, a boxing game ($6.95) in which players manipulate toy fighters until the knockout. Of the traditional dolls, stuffed animals, soldiers, and games, there are hundreds of new variations. Madame Alexander has a new doll, "Lissy" ($10 to $15.95), that walks, sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating...
...nose of the NACA's rocket contains instruments and telemetering equipment for transmitting data to earth. Although it is not in the class of Project Vanguard's satellite launcher, which must move at 18,000 m.p.h. 300 miles above the earth, the four-stage bird speeds almost as fast as the satellite during critical portions of its flight in comparatively dense air. Study of its behavior will help the satellite's designers...
...week the men of the 101st-many of them veterans of the World War II outfit-turned out with a roar to show off their skills. The high point of the day was the firing of an Honest John rocket, which set off a simulated atomic blast. The rocket launcher, however, was borrowed; a fact which symptomized one of the joist's current ills. It has yet to get much of its equipment...