Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons mentioned by Mr. Gwertzman, the Army has decided that it could not fit an augmented ROTC summer camp program into the increasingly crowded summer training schedule for Regular Army, Reserve and National Guard units...
...carry the first one, dropped on Hiroshima, which may have weighed more than 10,000 Ibs. The Army's announcement last week that it will abandon its monstrous, 11-in. atomic cannon tells how much the bombs have shrunk. The new atomic shells will fit an 8-in. gun. Since they will have to withstand the shock of firing, they will be much like ordinary 8-in. shells. They will have an internal cavity about 22 in. long and about 5½ in. in diameter in the center. This is apparently big enough for the works of a modern...
...could carry 50 or more of them on a long flight, and distribute them over a large industrial complex. Atomic shells for 8-in. guns are apparently an accomplished fact, although none has been tested in actual artillery. Next step will be an atomic shell to fit a 4.2-in. mortar. The Army's nuclear experts believe that this will be only a matter of time. When shells of this size are available, they can be fired from tanks. If made into bombs, they can be carried by the hundreds in jet bombers and scattered like confetti. One school...
...suffering from sterility-from an inability to beget sufficient heirs -because few people actually understand what we do ... Teen-agers in New England told a survey-taker a few years ago that they regarded the 'scientist as cold, calculating, and without social interest or moral standards-an occupation fit for "queer geniuses...
...help. "I was touched by the look of forlornness on these people," said Hollywood Presbyterian's Pastor Raymond I. Lindquist. "There's no glamour about them, just a climate of failure. You could call it a parade into darkness. But as soon as they get religion to fit into their needs, you see them brightening up. Suddenly, there's a twinge of hope...