Word: rifleman
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...That is the thing to remember. Today's pilot is a professional. Like other professionals, he has a set of ethics. What are they? To press on to a target. He's not like a rifleman going over the top. where, if the social stimulus of the other men doesn't push him over, someone will carry him over. No, our pilots go into targets alone. It's a matter of ethics whether they press through the attack. I don't think many would poop out in what you journalists call the moment of truth...
...bighorn sheep, mountain goat and bear-can provide thrills and challenges to rival anything in Africa. A Montana bull moose 7 ft. tall and weighing more than 1,000 Ibs. is an adequate stand-in for an elephant. A grizzly bear that can charge 100 yds. to maul a rifleman, even after its heart and lungs have been pierced by a bullet from a .30-caliber rifle, is fully as deadly as a lion. And a pronghorn antelope racing across the plains at 70 m.p.h. will test a hunter's marksmanship almost as sternly as an African impala...
SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN ARMY, drawings by Fritz Kredel (Regnery; $12.50), is a spot of Americana for anyone interested in the nation's military past: 32 drawings in full color of the uniforms of the American army from Washington and the colonial rifleman to this year...
They Laid Him Low. One day early this month, a rifleman waited patiently in the tall corn near the home pasture, until, at twilight, Webb began to plow. The legend was that Webb wore armor and could only be killed by a bullet in the brain. The marksman aimed carefully, and at 200 feet his aim was true. He fired twice again-while daughter Ursley Jean raised her father in her arms-and hit Webb twice again, but the first bullet was enough...
...rifleman hid in the thicket...