Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guns Speak. There was also contact of another sort. At De Gaulle's orders the French army has begun to penetrate in force the arid "forbidden zones" of Algeria where the F.L.N. bases its units. Fortnight ago 12,000 French troops, supported by artillery and rocket-carrying fighter planes, surrounded and wiped out two companies of rebel troops. In one week the French claimed to have killed a total of 672 rebels at a cost of 46 French dead...
...King moved 20,000 troops-two-thirds of Morocco's army-into the hills, under the command of his son Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 29. He sent tanks and artillery against rebel roadblocks and used six rocket-firing Morane jet trainer planes against rebel holdouts...
...rumble of discontent in the bleak, brown Rif mountains of northern Morocco (TIME, Dec. 22) grew so loud that King Mohammed V and his politicians in Rabat could no longer ignore it. Last week gunshots, artillery fire and rocket explosions echoed through the Rif in the most serious challenge to the King's authority in the three years of Morocco's independence from France...
...program is roughly similar. A "soft" instrument landing on the moon may be accomplished in 1960. Putting a man in space will take longer. A protected capsule to bring him back alive is already under development. One of the preliminary research tools toward this project is the X-15 rocket-plane, which will meet its first tests in a month or so. It is designed to start its flights in the atmosphere, then shoot out of it to a probable height of 150 miles. Its descent on stubby wings will build experience for controlled returns from deeper space...
What is the motive for the push into space? This question gets many sharply conflicting answers. Some military strategists believe that a U.S. rocket base on the moon, which could never be destroyed by surprise attack, would provide the supreme deterrent to any earth aggressor. Most scientists do not agree. Nor do they think much of the idea of armed satellite bases. They see little reason to shoot from a satellite when a rocket shot from solid ground can hit any target on earth. But satellites may prove to have value as "eyes in the sky" over enemy territory...