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...Pentagon announced last week that within a month the 868th Field Artillery Battalion would be on its way to Europe, to be assigned to the NATO forces. Its armament: six of the Army's new 85-ton, 280-mm. cannons, designed for firing atomic projectiles. Five more atomic battalions will follow within a year, giving General Alfred Gruenther and his SHAPE high command a weapon which might, if the circumstances were ideal, neutralize the huge numerical superiority of Russian ground forces...
Last Stand. Mossadegh's last stand came at 109 Kakh Street. U.S.-built Sherman tanks, ranged at each end of the tree-lined avenue, dueled for four hours, 75-mm. shells clanging off their World War II armor. The defending Mossadegh forces ran out of ammunition first, and it was all over. The losing commander was turned over to the royalist mob, which pulled him apart. A tank smashed the green grill gate, and thousands of attackers swarmed into the yard. Mossadegh had got away...
...Chicago, the annual convention of the National Audio-Visual Association claimed that more people are going to movies than ever before. But what they are seeing are not the big Hollywood productions, but 16-mm. industrial, educational and religious films. In the past 17 years the number of 16-mm. projectors has grown from...
Industrial 3-D. A 3-D, 16 mm. movie-projection system for industrial and educational use was demonstrated by RCA Victor. It uses two projectors and a special screen, and must be viewed through polarized glasses for 3-D effect...
...expensive and complex fighter planes, Britain's small Folland Aircraft, Ltd. is building a light, simple jet fighter, the Gnat, that could be produced in swarms to fight off bombers. Weighing only 5,500 Ibs. (v. 16,500 for the Sabre jet), the Gnat will carry twin 30-mm. cannons, and climb to 40,000 feet in less than five minutes. Northrop, Lockheed and North American have also proposed building lightweight jets, and the Air Force will soon ask U.S. plane builders to submit plans...