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...call, finally a wave on an hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets can be over the target with almost any combination of weapons he might need: .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, cannon shells, Bull-Pup missiles, Zuni rockets, napalm, 260-lb. to 3,000-lb. bombs. At the newest of the fields, Chu Lai, leveled and surfaced with aluminum matting by the Seabees in less than 30 days last spring, the runway is still so short that the jets take off in a double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...something happened on the way to Phase 3. The skies indeed opened up - and rained napalm, machine-gun bullets and Bull-Pup missiles from U.S. fighter-bombers, which by last week were flying over 400 lethal sorties a day. No weather could hide the Viet Cong from the radar eyes of the Guam-based B-52s and their pulverizing 750-and 1,000-lb. bombs. And by the tens of thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The U.S. Has the Initiative | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...missile, a new name for the Polaris B-3, which will be more accurate than the present Polaris and will double its firepower to about two megatons; 2) an air-launched short-range attack missile (SRAM) with a 150-mile capability, which plugs the gap between the ten-mile Bull-Pup and the 600-mi'e Hound Dog, and will increase the effectiveness of present bombers: 3) the huge C-5A cargo aircraft capable of carrying 750 soldiers and large, fast cargo ships propelled by gas turbine engines for quicker deployment of heavy military equipment; 4) large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: More for Less | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...think they can do it. But they can accomplish this only through the hardest kind of playing every minute of the game. There must not be an instant when a Crimson player slows up to take a rest, for that is always the time when the Yale bull-pup romps away with victory. If there is any man on the team who has an idea that he may become apathetic, let him inform the captain, for we want seven men on the ice who will play the best game they know how. The Arena today is to be a place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE ARENA | 2/16/1918 | See Source »

Yesterday morning the yard was the scene of an impromptu dog flight between a New foundland and a bull-pup. The former retired from the field on three legs, and the (?) was taken in charge by his master and soundly cuffed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1885 | See Source »

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