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...Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such targets as tanks, gun emplacements, troop concentrations). The Navy has the 8-mile Asroc and the 11-mile Astor (both ship-launched torpedoes), the 65-mile Talos (a ship-launched, 1,850-m.p.h. antiaircraft and shore-bombardment weapon), the not-yet-operational 25-mile Subroc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Atomic Arsenal | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

...gang), chides Tracy and gets clobbered with some one-armed karate. Another gang member, Lee Marvin, gets dispatched by a fire hose. And the leader, Robert Ryan, meets his fate when Tracy makes a Molotov cocktail from a bourbon bottle and the gasoline from a jeep...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Robertson Is Thud In 'PT 109' | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...from North Korea last week started a nasty little war of their own. Sneaking across the military demarcation line that divides Korea into Communist north and U.S.-supported south, they hid beside a road some six miles from the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom. At 5:30 a.m., a Jeep bounced along the rutted road carrying three U.S. enlisted men of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, bound for an observation point on a nearby hill. They never made it. The North Koreans blasted the Jeep from the road with a shower of grenades. Pfc Charles Dessart, 19, of Drexel Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Flare-Up | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...civilian clothes (including a coat bearing the label of a Seoul tailor), faked South Korean identity cards, rations for 15 days and $4,000 in U.S. money. Obviously, they had intended to infiltrate South Korea, but why had they jeopardized their mission by the ambush of the U.S. Jeep? Likeliest explanation: they thought they had been spotted by a U.S. patrol and had therefore opened fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Flare-Up | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...panic and resentment in two->fisted horseplay. When the heroine (Elizabeth Allen) arrives at the Pacific island where Wayne runs a grog shop, he promptly plops her into the lagoon. Then he dumps her in a canoe, knocks her down in the surf, drags her to his Jeep. When she squeals, he sneers. Can't take it, huh? But next day she proves she can dish it out: she beats him in a swimming race. He reluctantly admits she's a good guy and offers her a lei, but she holds out for a wedding ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Men Will Be Boys | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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