Word: properly
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Despite repeated denials, the Pentagon reversed itself last week and admitted publicly that its new lightweight rifle, the M16, does indeed have jamming troubles beyond those caused by lack of proper maintenance by G.I.s (TIME, June 9). Though the jamming is less severe than some of the rifle's critics claimed, its malfunction is serious enough for the Defense Department to order modification of all of the services' rifles, including approximately 135,000 in Viet Nam, where it is the basic infantry weapon...
...warehouse, while dozens of propositions were put forth. Some New Yorkers wanted her at Coney Island. Others said on the Manhattan Bridge. New York Life eventually decided to give her to New York University. But it was the middle of the Depression-and the cost of a proper tower was prohibitive. At last the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art offered her a place of honor in his main hall. And there she has remained ever since...
...many the Rifleman has been running lately, urging Americans to keep and bear arms and not let anyone take them away. Heretofore, the Rifleman, and some 14 other U.S. gun magazines such as Guns, Guns & Ammo, Muzzle Blasts and Precision Shooting, have published mostly technical articles on the proper care and handling of firearms and the most proficient ways to bring down everything from varmints to Viet Cong. But lately they have been devoting more space and fervor to a campaign against legal control of gun sales. No. 1 target is Senator Thomas Dodd's bill, which would limit...
According to his own advance billing, Tito brought with him a set of proposals for peace. As worked out in Yugoslavia, a proper compromise would require Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories it now occupies, while the Arab nations would declare an end to belligerency with Israel, thus in effect recognizing Israel's right to exist as a nation. Though the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba would revert to Egyptian control, Israeli ships would be guaranteed free passage...
...technological advances are likely to appear next. Scientists at the University of California at Davis have developed a lettuce picker with a sensing mechanism that "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ready for harvest. Similarly, an asparagus harvester is electronically activated only by stalks of the proper shape and size. For such products as apricots and olives, engineers are experimenting with shaking-and-catching devices already in use on prunes, peaches and apples; a mechanical arm clutches the tree and shakes it until the fruit drops into a canvas catching frame...