Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary of the Army, and Milton E. Epton and Mrs. Irving Mayer, representing her late husband, got $5,000 each for the construction of an atomic warhead light enough for the infantry's one-man Davy Crockett rocket...
Four recent graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration sharply disagreed Saturday on the ethics of "probing public consciousness to sell Davy Crockett , bigger cars, presidential s, and togetherness...
...having our road to hell with good inventions." True creativity, he maintained, is the only hope of his country. In order into have creativity, Americans must foster individualism and non-conformity. "A single educational dollar spent to have a child's creativity at age six from Davy Crockett would do more than $10,000 given to a technician at 40," Viereck said...
...much movie there are bound to be a couple of good things. The gorgeously gory fracas at the finish is one of them, and John Wayne is the other. Nature clearly did not intend this man to be a director. But as Davy Crockett he demonstrates once again his superiority over the rest of Hollywood's strong, silent types in portraying the unaccommodated man-the natural ignobleman invested with the authority of size and the dignity of slow wits...
...Davy Crockett tactical nuclear weapon, a sort of mortar that fires an atomic shell roughly 5 in. in diameter, with a punch enormously greater than the biggest conventional artillery shell ever fired. The Jeep-mounted version is fired by two men, has a range of five miles; the lighter, three-mile version is carried and fired by three soldiers on foot. The House Appropriations Committee was so impressed with the Davy Crockett that it voted funds for an extra 6,000 in addition to the number (secret) already provided for in the Administration budget...