Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College Plan is still just an imaginative report, and its chances of reaching the brick-and-mortar stage are uncertain. When the Report was released in December, one optimistic committee member offered "even money--not much money, but even money," that they will raise the $5 to $20 million to construct the physical plant. But most foundations, while happy to finance reports and studies, decline to pay for buildings. If New College is to succeed, it will require an unprecedented loan, or a substantial gift from a benefactor who recognizes the educational advances the Plan represents...
...advanced combat training, either in infantry, artillery, or armor--the toughest "schoolings" open to the RFA. Advanced infantry, for instance, is a continuation of basic training. The trainee fires weapons he only heard about in basic--the light machine gun, the recoiling rifles, the rocket launcher, the carbine, the mortar, and the pistol. He marches to distant ranges where he had been driven before. He learns to use a bayonet, bivouacking for four weeks out of the eight. Two RFA's at Fort Dix, N.J. in 1957 won the Expert Infantryman's Badge, the foot soldier's most coveted award...
...Mobile radar, mounted on two two-wheel trailers can instantly pinpoint hidden enemy mortars more than six miles distant (mortar fire accounted for more than half the Army's World War II and Korean war casualties...
Hopeful Leaning. Inside Lebanon, fighting sputtered on with just a hint that the rebels might be beginning to flag. At Tripoli, rebels led by ex-Premier Rashid Karami attacked by night to improve their supply lines toward the Syrian border, only to provoke such a heavy mortar barrage that their forces suffered an estimated 150 casualties. White flags suddenly appeared all over Tripoli's Moslem quarter and rebels in the port area negotiated a truce that represented a distinct advance for Chamoun's authority...
...windswept, heath-covered hilltops of Sardinia stand the remains of more than 6,000 cunningly contrived towers shaped like truncated cones. Built of squared volcanic rock, without mortar, these fortress towers, called nuraghi, range back to the time of ancient Troy, were in use until the culture of the Sards was finally smothered by Roman legions in the 3rd century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found...