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...root of the trouble is the powder for the M-16's .233-cal. ammunition...
Small but magnum-loaded, the round is one of the most cantankerous in the history of American small-arms. Since 1964, when the Army was informed that Du Pont could not mass-produce the nitrocellulose-based powder within the specifications demanded by the M16, Olin Mathieson Company has supplied most ammunition for the rifle with a high-performance ball propellant of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine...
With an income of $150,000 or so this year, Valasquez sports a powder-blue Cadillac and is planning to set up an investment fund. He keeps his Long Branch, N.J., apartment crammed with photos of his winning mounts and a huge record collection, which he usually enjoys alone. "I am not lucky with girls," he shrugs. "I am only lucky with horses, but then...
...action throughout was punctuated with flashes of eerie light and sound effects of thunder, lightning, sirens, whistles and whooshing jets. Exclaimed Big Foot at the close: "We sprinkle the rice powder of angels on the soiled bed sheets and turn the mattresses through blackberry bushes! And with all power the pigeon flocks dash into the rifle bullets! And in all bombed houses, the keys turn twice around in the locks...
...hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence on the Bay of Biscay. Led by the Duke of Alba, the Duke of Lerma and the Duke of Pinohermoso (who once commandeered the couch in the ladies' powder room rather than sleep in another hotel), the Spanish aristocracy still faithfully flocks to the Maria Cristina every summer. "We cater to a certain class of people who no longer have the money their grandparents had," says Director Abelardo Bellver, "but they do still have the very same tastes...