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After the war, the U.S. and Great Britain went off in different directions in search of such a weapon. U.S. Ordnance men decided that the standard .30-cal. slug was the smallest size with enough stopping power. They got to work on a light-weight cartridge (the T-65) that was half an inch shorter than the standard Garand cartridge and weighed about 16% less, without sacrificing any weight in the bullet itself. The light rifle* that they built around the stubby new shell fires as heavy a slug with the same muzzle velocity (about 2,800 ft. per second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The New Rifle | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

British gun designers turned to a much smaller weapon: a .276-cal. automatic rifle with a light slug and a relatively low, 2,300-ft.-per-second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon. They do not like the .276-cal.'s high, telescope-like sight: it could snap off in battle, become useless in foggy or muddy terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The New Rifle | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Cummings, a polysyllabic confidence man who comes from the North to swindle the Floridians, and stays on to save them. Whenever Cummings is in a tight spot, he reaches to his watch chain for a pistol the size of a tie-clip and plugs his assailant with a Lilliputian slug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...game; other Princetonians claimed that Myers had also wound up another play by booting a Tiger lineman in the back. ¶The rough & ready Southwest Conference produced a "grudge game" which even had the eyes of Texans popping. At one point a Texas substitute hurtled off the bench to slug a Texas A.&M. player; before the game was over, the fans had engaged in a free-for-all, and the referee had paced off 140 yards in penalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boos & Catcalls | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...ready for this one, although Coach Lloyd Jordan will definitely be without the services of starting wingback John Tulenko and probably without those of defensive end Don Cass; both have injuries. John Ederer, who played a fine game against Princeton, will take Tulenko's place, while Fritz Drill and Slug Dolan will fill in for Cass...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Near-Even Brown, Crimson Elevens Collide in Stadium | 11/17/1951 | See Source »

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