Word: armorers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Knights have been a favorite target of parodists ever since they first stepped into their armor. But not even Don Quixote is quite so grotesque as the heroes of these two short novels. One has only half a body; the other has none at all. It is Italian Novelist Calvino's way of saying how empty are the ideals of chivalry, whether medieval or modern...
Computers v. Clausewitz. This unusual new breed of analysts and planners, more learned in computers than in Clausewitz, is dedicated to the belief that the demands of defense in the thermonuclear age have outdated the methods as well as the armor that served in past wars. Says Dr. Alain C. Enthoven, 31, a key man in pulling together and evaluating military information: "There are many things that simply cannot be calculated-the reliability of an ally, or the psychological and political consequences of a military operation. But there are also many things that cannot be done intuitively or based entirely...
Facade of Elegance. It seems incredible that it should be so, for at first glance, the exhibition looks like a hopeless hodgepodge. There are polyptychs, triptychs and diptychs. an endless assortment of Madonnas. Pietàs in wood, stone and plaster, drinking horns and jewelry, tapestries and armor, brilliantly illuminated books, stained glass, portraits of princes, busts of prelates, ceremonial swords, hand-painted playing cards, gleaming sets of royal knives and forks...
...light that it weighs nothing at all, the neutrino is free of electric charge and can pass through the heaviest materials as if it were hurtling through empty space. But last week, a team of Columbia University physicists did the improbable: using 5,000 tons of battleship armor along with the most powerful atom cracker yet built, they found another variety of neutrino. Around the world, great laboratories are already planning experiments to exploit the tiny new window opening on the unknown...
...machine's high-energy protons at a beryllium target and produce an intense beam of pions-which decay rapidly into muons, neutrinos (perhaps the new type), and other nuclear odds and ends. After shooting across some 70 ft., this beam of mixed particles hit a shield of battleship armor 42 ft. thick that stopped everything but the neutrinos, which sailed on unheeding...