Word: arsenals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the Harvard delegation, Steven Young '66 and Nathan M. Riley '66, were responsible for a resolution to back state and federal studies of the problems of economic conversion of industries from military to civilian production. This included the possibility of turning the Watertown Arsenal into an Industrial Conversion Technology Center...
...nuclear trigger, while the French force de frappe would give them, in effect, nothing. The point was perfectly expressed in a recent conversation between a German and a French official. The dialogue went something like this: Frenchman: We need you in our force de frappe. An atomic arsenal is expensive, and German cooperation would be to both our advantages...
Many people at the rally waved "Hello LBJ" pennants and Bellotti-for-Governor posters. A few Goldwater signs were seen, and four placards protested the proposed closing of the Watertown Arsenal...
...problem of establishing a new set of relationships with one of its oldest, staunchest allies. And the news that Communist China had exploded a nuclear device revived vivid fears in the hearts of many peoples, indicating as it did that the wherewithal to produce an atomic arsenal will, within the foreseeable future, be in the hands of the most irresponsible government among the world's major powers. By all the good old rules of political reaction, these events should have strengthened President Johnson in his 1964 election run. In times of crisis, U.S. voters ordinarily flock to the cause...
Insects have a long list of ingenious means for fending off predators. They go in for camouflage coloring and offensive odors; in some cases they even mimic other insects that their enemy has no taste for. But few match the imaginative arsenal of the litt1e (quarter-inch long) Stenodus beetle, which has a defense mechanism as sophisticated as tomorrow's anti-missile missile. Attacked by a water strider, a fast, long-legged bug that is its customary nemesis, the Stenodus simply squirts out a charge of fluid detergent from a pair of abdominal glands. The detergent destroys the thin...