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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boards for the ladies, matchbooks for the men, comic books and balloons for the kids. Then he hurries off ("When there aren't any customers, I go out and find them"), making the rounds of the barbershops, stores, and especially the supermarkets. "Good morning," he says. "I'm Chuck Chamberlain, your Congressman. Have a shopping bag. And while I'm here, have you any complaints? This is your chance." Then, turning to a friend, Chamberlain exclaims happily: "See what I can do here in a few minutes as opposed to spending the time at a political rally...
...M-14 rifle replacing the familiar Garand M-1 (adopted in 1936), weighs a pound less (8.7 Ibs.), has a 20-round magazine (v. 8 rounds), fires 7.62-mm. NATO ammunition, which is smaller and lighter than the old .30-cal. ammo. Gone: the bayonet. Interchange of barrels makes the M-15, automatic version of the M-14, almost 7 Ibs. lighter than the Browning Automatic Rifle...
...M-60 machine gun also fires 7.62-mm. ammo, replaces light and heavy -30-cal. machine guns of World War I vintage. The first true infantry assault gun of its kind, it can be fired from bipod, tripod, hip or shoulder, weighs 23 Ibs. (v. 30-40 Ibs.), is designed for quick replacement of barrel...
...canal before, showed up at Port Said on an emergency dash to reinforce the Seventh Fleet off Formosa. The Egyptians eagerly built a special platform on the deck, and from this vantage their senior pilot, a Greek with 30 years' experience, conned the flattop through, nonstop. "I'm trying to give my customers the best,'' says the authority's able, open-shirted Managing Director Mahmoud Younis, 46, a fellow soldier of Nasser's with good engineering experience. "I realize they have to come to me because there is only one canal, but I also...
...late as 1939, the province had only two inhabitants per square mile of territory. The road system was primitive, the railroads-except for the transcontinental lines-a hoary joke. "You've got the scenery, you've got the timber," went an old refrain, "but I'm going East where the money...