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...before, in 1950 tests at Fort Benning, Ga. by a joint U.S.-Canadian-U.K. board, and failed to carry the day. The U.S. didn't like the lighter-powered bullet or the optical sight. Growled one critic: "Send an infantryman off on a foggy morning through wet brush or grass, and then let him try to get accurate fire with a wet, fogged-up sight." Another objection, and a big one, is that other NATO nations use rifles of heavier than .28-cal. (some being supplied by the U.S., free). To switch to a new caliber, retool...
Illinois' rumpled Senator Paul Douglas wet his lips, solemnly cinched up his belt and took his fight with Harry Truman into the open. Slapped down by the President in the choice of two men for vacancies on an Illinois federal district court (TIME, July 23), Senator Douglas persuaded the Chicago Bar Association to take a poll on whether it favored his or the President's choices...
...haven't got a baby they romp with a dog... You never saw Valentino holding a child; but you saw him with a beautiful babe on his arm. Jack Barrymore never posed for a life-with-father layout. Have you ever seen a picture of Garbo hanging out wet wash...
...only "sky-watered." Desert soil has not been leached by heavy rain of its soluble plant nutrients. The sunlight keeps plants awake and growing. Most important of all, a skilled irrigator can give his plants just the right amount of water. Natural rainfall seldom does this; most seasons have wet or dry spells that check plant growth...
...summer giving swimming exhibitions to raise money for the Channel try late this summer. Russell was sure that Bubba could make it, although Kathy, he conceded, might well have to give up before the end. As it turned out, however, neither of the kids was likely even to get wet. A small tidal wave of indignation swept Britain. Letters to the newspapers denounced the scheme as cruel exploitation. "I cannot help thinking," said Home Secretary James Chuter Ede in the House of Commons, "that swimming the Channel at that early age is rather a severe test even for an infant...