Word: bazookas
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...Army demonstrated a cheap ($30), light (4½ Ibs.) tank killer: a one-man bazooka with an expendable plastic firing tube. Each firing tube may be used several times, and a G.I. can carry at least five of its rocket charges. Every bit as powerful as the two-man, 20-lb., $175 bazooka it is meant to replace, the "XM-72 Rocket Grenade" is a companion piece for the foot soldier's 90-mm. recoilless rifle. Between the two, says the Army, ground outfits will have the antitank weapons they need. "We hope to issue them like hand grenades...
SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILE, to be named Red-Eye, will be developed for Army and Marines by General Dynamics Corp.'s Gonvair division under $6,000,000 contract. New surface-to-air weapon looks like World War II bazooka, is electronically guided for use against low-flying planes...
...London, Fidel Castro's ambassador said that Trujillo has organized an arms-buying network across Europe, North Africa and the U.S.* Trujillo is believed to have agents and transshippers in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Tunis, London, New York and Rome, negotiating for bazookas, bazooka ammunition, tanks, armored cars, field artillery, shells, even British Vampire jets. He is also said to be recruiting mercenaries, including some from Franco's Spain, who are flown via Bermuda, manifested as farm laborers. Reacting...
Like the school bully putting the new boy in his place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers has been Aussie Lew Hoad, a blond muscleman with the forearm of a weight lifter, who challenged Gonzales in 1958 after conquering the amateur world. As usual, Gonzales treated the newcomer like an upstart kid, routed Hoad 51-36 on their first barnstorming tour of professional matches...
Desk Work at Night. Arkansan Quarles studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Yale ('16) and Columbia, once played guitar in the band of Bazooka Man Bob Burns, a Van Buren fellow townsman. Quarles spent 34 years with Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Western Electric Co., helped develop World War II's radar. Eventually, as president of Western Electric's subsidiary