Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrendered to U.S. troops. The Americans recognized the value of their prisoner. Within a few months, he was working under contract to the U.S. Army at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. By 1950, he was placed in charge of guided missile development at the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Ala. In 1960, Von Braun, who had since become an American citizen, was named director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville and charged with building the rockets that would eventually carry U.S. astronauts to the moon...
...will be accepted by an admissions committee that doesn't roll over and play dead for every all-state linebacker that comes along--often creates problems. Pure athletic scholarships and submissive admissions committees, the two weapons that have built many an NCAA champion, are not in the Ivy League arsenal. But Harvard has disarmed itself even further by stripping its coaches of the ability to bring their sales pitches into the living rooms of their prospective charges...
...weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal with which to blackmail his Arab neighbors. By story's end, the Western world is in shambles, with America's banks engulfed in a depositors' panic, supermarkets emptied by frantic hoarders, and half the world's oil reserves contaminated by nuclear fallout...
...first part of the cover story, analyzing the U.S. arsenal, was written by Burton Pines. Frank Merrick, who also did our cover story on then Defense Secretary James Schlesinger in February 1974, wrote the profile of Brown, while Writer Robert Goldstein brought the old dogfaces, Willie and Joe, into the nuclear...
Because observers expect no early breakthroughs at SALT, however, the U.S. is almost certain to expand its arsenal. No crash programs will be necessary, since the new generations of arms are already in the pipeline?designed, developed and tested. The problem for the Administration will be to decide which of the new missiles, ships, tanks, artillery, helicopters and communications systems the nation needs, and how much it can afford. In addition. Brown must weigh carefully whether any of the new weapons?by the very fact that they might substantially unbalance the arms scale?will create unnecessary obstacles in reaching future...