Word: lightweight
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Despite repeated denials, the Pentagon reversed itself last week and admitted publicly that its new lightweight rifle, the M16, does indeed have jamming troubles beyond those caused by lack of proper maintenance by G.I.s (TIME, June 9). Though the jamming is less severe than some of the rifle's critics claimed, its malfunction is serious enough for the Defense Department to order modification of all of the services' rifles, including approximately 135,000 in Viet Nam, where it is the basic infantry weapon...
...John Vliet Lindsay, who had planned no more ambitious a ploy than to referee an exhibition bout between Lightweight Champion Carlos Ortiz and his sparring partner, the sweat, the blows -and the appreciative gasps-were just part of the job. But for 2,000,000 people in the city's slums, they were proof that somebody cared. Indeed this concern was just what they had come to expect from the 45-year-old mayor of New York...
...foursome from Harvard's varsity lightweight crew defeated Vesper by four lengths Saturday to win the Princeton Cup at the American Henley Competition at Worcester...
Oarsmen from Harvard's lightweight crew squad will enter two races at the American Henley competition at Worcester, June...
Skiing, say the experts, has advanced 30 m.p.h. in 30 years; metal skis, lightweight safety bindings, improved waxing and modern stretch suits have all aided that advance. Even foot racing has new and faster tracks, to say nothing of better shoes. In 1960, University of Oregon Coach Bill Bowerman developed shoes that weighed only 4 oz., compared with 6 oz. for the old "lightweights." The difference might seem minor, says Bowerman, "but you know what it meant in a mile race? The runner was lifting 200 pounds less." Now a German firm has produced a 2½ oz. shoe...