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...essential to a comprehensive and complete picture of a world at war. Without the kind of reporting that TIME gives us, the machine gunner's vision of the world is limited to his sector of fire; the pilot's to his operating radius; and the rifleman's to the extreme limit of his own eyesight...
...Sergeant Shapovalov is (or was) an anti-tank rifleman. "What is a tank?" said he. "I can see it, but it can't see me. My rifle is small and hard to hit, but a tank is big. All you have...
Everybody knows what is right about Bobby Riggs's game. He plays tennis like a professional blackjack dealer. He doesn't hit hard, but he thinks hard and fast. And he has control like an expert rifleman. In the final, Powerhouse Kovacs was too much for Riggs in the first set, 7-5. Then temperamental Mr. Kovacs' game blew up. He looked as though he preferred to be almost anywhere but on a tennis court. Riggs easily dealt him out of the next three sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, and so got another national championship...
...Army, the best in the world. To outfit and maintain a U.S. soldier, from toilet kit (63?) to overcoat ($12.54), and buy his organizational equipment, from shovels (68?) to hymnals for the chapels ($33.75 a set), costs $262.35 a year. Complete with Garand ($96), the Army rifleman's equipment (including maintenance but not ammunition) sets the U.S. Treasury back $258.35 a year. Average annual civilian expenditure on clothes (estimated): $80. The soldier's bill for clothing only...
...practical purposes the tryout resolved into a contest between 1) the Garand and Springfield, and 2) the different systems of combat fire which each represented. The old-fashioned Springfield puts down a sure but comparatively slow fire (12-15 aimed shots a minute, for an average rifleman), is therefore the darling of those who believe with Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill ("Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes") in deliberate, sharpshooting marksmanship. The Garand, 3 to 3½ times faster, is therefore the logical choice of those who put high fire power above all else...