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...something like shooting a duck from a spinning merry-go-round, using a bullet that takes two days to creep near its target. The moon has its own motion; it speeds around the earth on a somewhat elliptical orbit at 2,300 m.p.h.*Even more disturbing to the moon-marksmen is the rotation of the earth. In every minute, the earth rotates enough to make a 1,000-mile difference in the rocket's position when and if it reaches the moon's orbit...
Defense Secretary Neil McElroy took his seat in the target chair before the House Armed Services Committee. Studying him with trained marksmen's eyes sat the 37-man committee, headed by Georgia's Democrat Carl Vinson. Congress' No. 1 anti-reorganization man. Purpose of the hearing: to fire a few range and windage rounds at McElroy and the Administration's defense reorganization plan...
Perhaps more importantly for this year's vintage crop of marksmen, the game witnessed the return to form of pint-sized guard George Harrington. A disappointment in earlier season play, Harrington, a junior, finally achieved a semblance of last year's brilliant performances as he scored consistently on set shots and driving lay-ups and tallied 19 points to lead the Crimson scoring...
...Harvard Rifle team placed second in the opening match of its season, Saturday. In a triangular meet the Crimson marksmen outshot Dartmouth, 1399 to 1345, but could not match...
...President's national defense budget. The $300,000 is the sole Government contribution to a program which involves nearly 4,000 civilian rifle and pistol clubs in the U.S. These clubs are not the plush hunting clubs so graphically pictured in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. They are modest clubs of marksmen who, on their own time, on their own ranges, and largely with their own weapons, keep alive the art of rifle marksmanship. The contribution made by the U.S. Government is largely in the form of very limited supplies of surplus ammunition and equipment to those clubs which annually report...