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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikita Sergeevich building small bonfires (a hobby), romping with his grandchildren, playing with his pet Alsatian, munching grapes on the front porch, peering through binoculars over walls that separate him from the rest of the world, dining with his wife Nina. "He looks," said NBC News Vice President Donald V. Meaney, "like a little old man watching life...
...Zoppas, In-desit, Candy and Castor. Using newer, more automated plants than their competitors, the Italians ignore Europe's traditional luxury market to concentrate on a high volume of low-cost models for prospering workers. They cut heavily into the German washing-machine market by offering $250 washers v. the $375 lowest price for German machines. When the Germans stripped down their luxury models and reduced prices to match, the Italians cut their price...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series: Albert V. Baez, Division of Science Teaching, Department for the Advancement of Science, UNESCO, on "My Love Affair with UNESCO." Emerson Hall...
...doing away with trouble-prone extraction and ejection devices, says Hough, the V-L system "eliminates a lot of your hardware and a lot of potential malfunction problems." Further, instead of giving the lead slug a "punch," as the powder-filled cartridge does, the propellant gives it a "shove," reducing both recoil and noise...
Cooler Turrets. Although Daisy intends to confine its output of V-L products to .22-caliber rifles and perhaps shotguns the military implications are obvious. Daisy engineers have already shot V-L bullets at speeds as high as 3,000 ft. per sec.-well within the performance range of high-powered conventional rifles. V-Ls can be fired chemically and electrically, as well as with hot-air jets, making them adaptable to a large variety of weapons systems. Elimination of cartridges would also solve a troublesome problem in tank turrets, where hot shell casings pile up quickly during combat...