Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third speaker, David Armor, another past president of the Berkeley student body, discussed the history of the administration's relation to political student activity since...
Unfortunately, Armor continued, the original arrangement grew to be a twoway relationship, with the University being defined not only as the administration, but as faculty and students also...
...pages. McGraw-Hill. $27.50. ARMS AND ARMOR by Vesey Norman. 128 pages. Putnam. $4.95. Who has not, at least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor...
...naturally longer, more complete, with more large and lush color pictures. It also treats of the muskets and hand guns that signaled the beginning of armor's end. But the smaller volume is nonetheless unexpectedly meaty, and certainly represents value for money...
There is still much to be done in the field of protective armor for the football player. Helments, for instance, are difficult to improve. Even with modern, lightweight materials, a "crash-proof" helmet is still too heavy to wear, Suggestions are legion; one bizarre idea was to cover the outside of the helmet with sponge to cushion the impact. "But the beauty of it is that manufactures are working in cooperation with doctors," Fadden said...