Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army has long deployed around U.S. big cities its operational point-defense missile Nike Ajax, a beam rider with a range of about 25 miles, but Nike Ajax can easily be deflected by enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid-fuel Hawk, designed to meet attack by enemy bombers scooping in at low level beneath U.S. radar...
...Conditioned Reflex." At 32, Schaus is a boyish, genial giant (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) who still can mix it up with his team in practice, still share his team's private jokes. But he is also a solid tactician who builds his offense around a whirling fast break led by Forward Bob Smith, insists on a dogged, man-to-man defense...
Easy Does It. While the schools score above average in the number of basic courses they offer, these courses are getting fewer and fewer takers. General enrollment has risen 26% since 1945, but with the exception of first-year algebra (up 11%) and solid geometry (up 28%), the number of pupils in all other mathematics and science courses has slumped. Physics is down 10%, chemistry 17%. Other academic subjects have also suffered: enrollment in social studies, which include one required year of U.S. history, has dropped 9%; first, second and third-year Latin are down an average 20%; fourth-year...
...systems. He set out to create a General Motors of defense, visualizing it as a national service as well as a business. Using Electric Boat as his nucleus (the company had plenty of cash but few orders after 1945), he worked out a careful formula for expansion. He wanted solid, well-managed firms that could be picked up for a small amount of cash or an exchange of stock, then made into even better companies...
...ENTRY in field of solid rocket fuels, Astrodyne, Inc., will be formed as joint subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Co. Astrodyne hopes to produce fuels to outdo those used in North American's liquid-propelled engines for Atlas, Thor, Jupiter missiles...