Word: cannoneer
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...also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming Haitian crayfish. The weather is good the year around, the scenery spectacular. Heroic history seems to hang in the air, especially in the north, around Cap-Hai-tien; it becomes almost tangible in the presence of the 3,000-lb. cannon, graved with the arrogant "N" of the Napoleon who lost them, in the gloomy gun galleries of the Citadel...
...shore as the royal liner Gothic steamed into Sydney harbor. There were 1,000 private yachts, several Australian warships, scores of sightseeing steamers, and a school of hot-rod speedboats driven by cheering teenagers, who seemed more eager to swamp the police boats than to welcome their Queen. Cannon roared; sirens blew; wave after wave of fighter aircraft swooped low over the royal yacht. Her Majesty, helped by Philip, stepped ashore at Farm Cove, where the first English settlers (290 freemen and 717 convicts) landed...
...Cannon Mountain in Franconia there are many trails easily reached by the 2000-foot Aerial Tramway. Laconia, Intervale, Mt. Sunapee and Peterborough also offer good skiing...
Matador's addition to NATO gives the West at least three possible ways of using the atom against enemy forces advancing in Europe: by 1) conventional piloted aircraft which can deliver A-bombs, 2) the Army's 280-mm. cannon, already in Europe, and 3) the Matador-with its range of several hundred miles and its electronic, ground-controlled brain guiding it to tactical targets by day or by night in any kind of weather...
...though no kin, got his nickname early in his career from Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, strong-willed Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from...