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...Expects Lighter Duties...
Harvard came out of football practice last spring with a depth chart of sixteen lettermen, five other former varsity replacements, nine promising freshmen, and a half-dozen former jayvees. The line, and particularly defensive play, was woakened by graduation. The backfield is lighter and faster than a year ago, with promising sophomores Dick Clasby (behind Captain Carroll Lowenstein at tailback) and John Tulenko adding a little badly-needed speed...
...Daily Forward (circ. 150,000), one of the most influential foreign-language (Yiddish) papers in the U.S. At 21, because of his radical political sympathies, he left Czarist Russia for Manhattan's lower East Side. Through the columns of the Forward, he presented democratic socialism as well as lighter reading in terms that ill-educated immigrants could understand, fought to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in the garment trades, became a leading anti-Communist in the Jewish world...
...been tried out before, in 1950 tests at Fort Benning, Ga. by a joint U.S.-Canadian-U.K. board, and failed to carry the day. The U.S. didn't like the lighter-powered bullet or the optical sight. Growled one critic: "Send an infantryman off on a foggy morning through wet brush or grass, and then let him try to get accurate fire with a wet, fogged-up sight." Another objection, and a big one, is that other NATO nations use rifles of heavier than .28-cal. (some being supplied by the U.S., free). To switch...
...boost U.S. production to 4,100 tons by September 1952, more than eight times the present world output. The immediate goal is to get enough for jet-engine alloys. But Titanium Corp. has its eyes on a far bigger potential market for the metal. Titanium, because it is 56% lighter than alloy steel, and heavier but 300% stronger than aluminum, has been dubbed the "middleweight champ." As the price comes down and production techniques improve, they believe the new wonder metal will have an unlimited future...