Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with understanding restraint last week, somewhat like a disapproving parent who has caught a child in a naughty act but doesn't want to hurt his feelings with a spanking. The press was amused: L'Aurore seemed flattered that anyone would consider France's puny atomic arsenal worth spying on, and Combat put tongue in cheek to ask WILL THE FRANCO-AMERICAN WAR TAKE PLACE...
...third nuclear decade, the world faces a new kind of threat. Even as the likelihood of all-out war between the U.S. and Russia recedes, the danger now and for years to come is not only that Communist China will develop and deploy an atomic arsenal, but that a succession of smaller nations will be under increasing and perhaps irresistible pressure to join the nuclear arms race. Britain's Disarmament Minister, Lord Chalfont, described this prospect last week as "the principal and most urgent problem facing us today." Chalfont thus echoed his opposite number, William C. Foster, director...
Deadly Draw. Then, in a bold gamble, Army Brigadier General Cao Van Vien, commander of South Viet Nam's III Corps, employed the rarest of weapons in the Saigon arsenal: imagination. Guessing that the Viet Cong had already overrun the protected jungle clearings where relief helicopters could be expected to land, Vien sent 40 choppers loaded with troops swooping suddenly onto a soccer field adjacent to the defenders' compound. Before the Viet Cong could react, the bulk of the 52nd Ranger Battalion was on the ground and fighting. By the following morning, the Communist attackers had had enough...
Reading about the battle of the sycamores in today's CRIMSON reminds me of another road being quietly built along this side of the river between the Eliot and Arsenal bridges. The not unpleasant little stand of scrub red birch that used to be there, below the cemetery, will soon be replaced by pavement and another stream of the ubiquitous cars that seem to come out of the woodwork nowadays. Roger A. C. Williams...
...young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving in a shrine, the computers go about their work quietly and, for the most part, unseen by the public. Popping up across the U.S. like slab-sided mushrooms, they are the fastest growing element in the technical arsenal of the world's most technologized nation. In 1951 there were fewer than 100 computers in operation in the U.S.; today 22,500 computers stand in offices and factories, schools and laboratories-four times as many as all the computers that exist elsewhere in the free world. Only eleven...