Word: cannoneering
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...Cannon Fodder...
...with harrowing accuracy. The serried ranks of French overflow the British positions. The infantry companies form huge squares, firing at an enemy that seems, like dragon's teeth, to sow new fighters as the old ones tumble. And mud undoes both sides. Aerial cameras traverse the horizon, catching cannon and cavalry as they give the battle almost Tolstoyan sweep and power...
Died. Charles A. Cannon, 78, chairman of Cannon Mills Co.; of a stroke; in Kannapolis, N.C. Son of the company's founder, Cannon initiated a number of industry advances, including pastel colors for towels and matching towel sets, that helped to make Cannon Mills one of the largest textile companies in the nation (1970 sales, $306 million). Yet he was also the last of the oldtime textile barons. He owned and ran the company town of Kannapolis. Though his company was a publicly held corporation, he once refused to send proxy material to outside stockholders because the New York...
...Water Cannon. The protests were timed to coincide with the Brussels meeting of the E.E.C.'s agricultural ministers. Behind a protective barrier of concertina wire, water cannon and heavily armed cops, the ministers are trying to thresh out solutions to the Common Market's troublesome agricultural crisis...
...rotors accompanied the vast operation at every stage: airborne Cobra gunships softened up, or "prepped," landing sites with machine-gun and rocket fire; workhorse Hueys lifted entire battalions of South Vietnamese troops into enemy territory and evacuated the wounded; giant Chinooks supplied ground forces with everything from medicines to cannon. During a single day of the offensive, U.S. helicopters flew 1,100 sorties into Laos. Yet even as the wondercraft of the war showed that it has come fully of age, it also showed that it has some glaring weaknesses...