Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guided missiles powered by rocket motors are not new. Their military importance has been obvious since the German V-25, speeding many times as fast as the sound of their coming, hit London in 1944. If they had carried atomic warheads, they would have reduced much of England to radioactive rubble. No military nation missed this chilling lesson. War had taken on a new dimension; even before the first atomic bomb, it took little imagination to picture dozens of deadly duties that missiles could perform...
This was a breakthrough. It changed all the equations of scientific war, and it forced on the Department of Defense a grave decision: to concentrate intensively on the ICBM. No longer did the intercontinental ballistic missile need to hit a one-mile "pickle barrel" to be effective. A T-N (thermonuclear) warhead in the megaton range (equivalent to millions of tons of TNT) would blot out a large city even if it exploded well outside the city's limits, and its radioactive fallout would have a killing effect a long way downwind. So the ICBM, besides being fairly small...
...division, the Army has the well-publicized Nike (rhymes with Mikey), a liquid-fuel rocket launched by a solid-fuel booster and steered toward invading bombers by radio. The Nike dates back to the Keller era and is not the last word, but the Army believes that it will hit any attacking bomber sent over in the near future. Admittedly the Nike is a point defense weapon with only moderate lateral range. But the Army has so many Nike batteries at strategic points that their ranges already overlap...
...businesswoman became apparent when Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc. bought a property to serve as a starring vehicle for its president, M. Monroe The property was Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince, a London stage hit in which Sir Laurence Olivier played the prince. Marilyn also bagged the playwright, and soon had another famed theatrical technician, Director John (The African Queen) Huston...
...Dictator Perón. As a starter, New York's First National City Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank will set up a $30 million fund to cover payments for Argentinians for goods bought in the U.S. The move should help steady Argentina's peso, which last week hit an alltime low of 45.75 to the dollar before climbing...