Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hector, not Paris, who killed Patroclus), the script by John Twist shows a commendable respect for the letter of the myth. It is the spirit that is Twisted. Homer's was a mythic drama in which gods and heroes, love and politics, war and religion moiled in the mortar of imagination. Helen of Troy is basically a story of hot pants in high places. The hero, accordingly, is not "godlike Hector" or "great Achilles" but "soft Paris," whom even Helen called a coward. As the part is written, the "pest of Troy" can actually fight like a Trojan...
...cold weather, Chicago's Ludowici-Celadon Co. has developed Nail-On, a hard clay brick ¾ in. thick. It can be nailed to a wall through a lip protruding along its top edge; the bottom edge of the next brick overlaps the lip to form a neat joint. Mortar can be applied whenever builder and weather are ready...
...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...
Graduating seniors today will wear their academic tassels on the right side of their mortar boards. Tomorrow, the tassels will move to the other side, and '55 will join the Alumni...
Twenty-five minutes later, more mortar shells dropped into the palace, and the private army of the Binh Xuyen, 2,000 terrorists in arsenic-green berets, opened concerted fire against three main Vietnamese Nationalist strongpoints. Ngo Dinh Diem, long criticized for pacifism and procrastination, first ordered counterfire against the Binh Xuyen defenses. One hour later he sharply raised the stakes, and told the army to clear the Binh Xuyen out of the city...