Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During one of the aboveground blasts, 2,000 marines crouched in 6-ft. trenches within sight of ground zero. In a matter of minutes after the fireball disappeared, some 1,400 were being helicoptered in to seize the atomized battlefield, theoretically blasted clean of enemy troops. For the 13th shot, the Army's Task Force Razor this week was poised to ride out the explosion in the most exposed surface position to date: in Patton tanks, spread 50 yds. apart, some 3,100 yds. from ground zero, and in new M59 armored personnel carriers 3,900 yds. from ground...
This kind of cold but necessary practicality, common to the battlefield but startling to civilians, shows up in what civil-defense men are calling "triage" (pronounced try-idge).* Explained Dr. Grant Taylor, who directed the Hiroshima damage survey and served as a judge of the Houston-Beaumont test: "You need somebody out front to say 'No-not you, but you.' He'd probably have to carry a revolver on his hip. If a man is 80% burned, he's almost sure to die, no matter what you do for him. If he's 10% burned...
...White House, moved out of Washington and sped across the countryside toward Gettysburg, Pa. In it were the President of the U.S. and Washington Building Contractor Charles H. Tompkins, who is remodeling the house on Dwight Eisenhower's 189-acre farm at the edge of the Gettysburg battlefield. Behind came another White House car, its back seat piled high with bedding and some pots and pans from the White House kitchen. At the farm Dwight Eisenhower discussed final rebuilding details, grilled steaks for dinner, spent his first night in the first house he has ever owned. Next morning...
Like antagonists retiring from the battlefield to regroup, France's National Assembly and Premier Mendès-France went off last week on short vacations. For Mendès the vacation was, typically, an opportunity to get work done. Chronically unable to leave his job behind him, Mendès booked reservations for himself and his pretty wife Lily at the Italian resort town of Positano, but then loaded up the schedule with an imposing list of appointments-an audience with Pope Pius XII, a meeting with Italy's Premier Mario Scelba and, on the way home...
...mechanical device for quickly laying barbed wire on a battlefield. Using present hand methods, it takes nine soldiers six hours to set up a double-apron entanglement 300 yards long and 10 feet wide...