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...postwar T-41 light tanks will begin coming off the assembly lines. T-41 will be armed with a 76-mm. gun, will have a top speed of 35 m.p.h., will be every bit as good in performance as World War II's medium Sherman-and seven tons lighter. The T-42, a medium, will be about six months behind T-41 on the assembly lines. And on the blueprint horizon-but within sight -is the U.S.'s first modern heavy: T-43, a dreadnaught whose details are top secret...
...more common, if inaccurate, term for this is color-blindness. I have had my condition since birth and have never found it a handicap (I am a licensed automobile operator) but when I faced the new exam schedule I found it composed entirely of indistinguishable blobs of lighter and darker gray...
Lear Inc.'s F-5 autopilot is much lighter (weight, less than 55 lbs.) than its predecessors, and so small (volume, 1 cu. ft.) that its parts have to be assembled by watchmakers' methods. When the plane is once in the air, the pilot can point it on its compass heading, turn on the autopilot, and relax as far as flying is concerned...
Thompson, however, did not handle the case today; Assistant District Attorney Ephrim Martin appeared to ask for a $200 fine. Judge Thomas Dowd decided on a lighter sentence. He told the prosecution that "something should be done to restrain these impetuous Harvard students," but that he felt the minimum fine would be enough...
...offered surplus warships to several Latin American countries at about 10% of their original price, plus the cost of reconditioning. Others in the line for warships bargains: Brazil (two heavy cruisers and some destroyer escorts), Argentine (two heavy cruisers), Peru (three destroyer escorts), Venezuela and Colombia (lighter craft...