Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knockout Punch. Behind the rapid-fire left jabs of its M16s, the infantry squad carries a knockout punch in the blunderbuss-shaped M-79 grenade launcher. "Beautiful little seventy-niners," the Marines call them, particularly when a 40-mm. grenade-spring-loaded with half-inch steel barbs -pops in the middle of a Viet Cong position 385 yds. away. The M-79 has two drawbacks: it is only a single-shot weapon (good grenadiers get off 16 rounds per minute), and its grenades are armed only after a flight of 30 meters through the air-in order to protect...
...Florence, the tide tore through the walls of jewelers' shops on the Ponte Vecchio (built in 1345) and inundated the Piazza, della Signoria. Propelling logs and other debris, it piled autos into heaps of smashed steel and left a thick oil slick in its wake. Hundreds of rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce...
...rush was on. In the lead were the holy men. Many were completely naked, and had pinned their ban-the-butcher pennants in their long matted hair for lack of any place else to stick them. Some shouted, "The cow is our mother!" Dancing like dervishes, the sadhus swung steel-tipped staves, axes and tridents to drive back police. Behind them surged...
...times to reappear as wrapping or wallboard. Some 25% of all paper now derives from this "secondary forest," and there is so much reforestation that 60% more timber is maturing every year than is cut. A new process breaks up old cars into tiny bits and magnetically extracts the steel to produce a 97%-pure scrap, offering a hope that most of the nation's automobile graveyards can eventually be eliminated. Fly ash is converted to make lightweight bricks, panels and construction blocks. Celotex is using blast-furnace slag to make mineral wool...
Fahrenheit 451. The Red Beast roars as it leaps into the sunlight. Thirty feet Tom nose to tail and wrapped in scarlet p1ates of steel, it hurtles down the highway at 100 m.p.h. Outside a new apartment house, it screams to a rubber-ripping stop and flings nine tiny men in tight black uniforms off its big red back. The men crash into a flat, turn drawers and closets inside out, carry off a heap of hidden books, whip out a handsome copper flamethrower, burn all the books to fine grey soot...