Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australia, will become the world's newest nation. The Republic of Nauru, administered by Australia as a U.N. trust territory since 1947, will have a native population of 3,000, smallest of any nation state. But what Nauruans lack in numbers they make up with money. They have per capita income of about $4,000, compared with...
...experiments and flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified air rifle and pellets wadded with cottonlike propellant, the 6-ft. 3-in. Belgian squeezed off shots whose velocity was clocked at almost 1,500 ft. per sec., the speed of a conventional .22-caliber bullet. Hough was agog. "I couldn't believe it," he recalls. Hurrying back to his hotel room with Van Langenhoven's rifle and a supply of the propellant, he spent the evening enthusiastically peppering a thick telephone directory propped against...
Cooler Turrets. Although Daisy intends to confine its output of V-L products to .22-caliber rifles and perhaps shotguns the military implications are obvious. Daisy engineers have already shot V-L bullets at speeds as high as 3,000 ft. per sec.-well within the performance range of high-powered conventional rifles. V-Ls can be fired chemically and electrically, as well as with hot-air jets, making them adaptable to a large variety of weapons systems. Elimination of cartridges would also solve a troublesome problem in tank turrets, where hot shell casings pile up quickly during combat...
...many as 70 different transparent plastic sheets, each of which has the exact, three-dimensional surface of the original painting. The prepared canvas is then printed with all 70 sheets. At present, Dietz works with only two manual presses, dealing principally with wholesalers, and charges from $3 to $30 per print. The process could in theory be programmed and guided electronically, permitting mass production with startling fidelity...
Zorba the Greek was a splendid hero, but when he tried his hand at lignite mining he was a disaster. That's the way economic things go in Greece, a country that has an annual per-capita G.N.P. of only $530 and ranks as one of Europe's least-developed areas. Hoping to change that situation at long last, the Greek government has now turned to a more modern type of hero for a helping hand: California's versatile Litton Industries...