Word: terrierism
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...jazz bands will lead a 150-car Boston University caravan to Braves Field today to highlight the Crimson nine's 1956 opener against a strong Terrier team. The cavalcade, described by B.U. authorities as a "spontaneous idea," will travel from its main campus to the field for the 2 p.m. game...
...president of Chrysler Corp., whom President Truman put in charge of the program in 1950. Production Man Keller had little patience with visionary plans; he wanted hardware, both in the factories and in the skies, and he got it. The missiles now in operational use-the Matador, Nike, Corporal, Terrier-are the result of Keller's drive. Since most of them are soon to be replaced, Keller has been criticized for loading the inventory with so-so weapons. But this was inevitable in the rapid metabolism of modern war; Keller's program created the knowledge, experience, test facilities...
...Terrier. A small, solid-fuel antiaircraft missile, it is already installed on missile ships. Its range is short, and it will probably be replaced by the Tales, a rocket-ram-jet bird...
Wildfire is the result of something that should not have happened between a champion bull terrier and a certain lowborn bitch who made her living on the streets, and the picture tells how his worth overcame his birth. Put to the pits by a greedy master (Jeff Richards), Wildfire fights his way to the championship of the Bowery before he is overmatched with a bigger dog, and left on the floor half dead. A kindly groom (Edmund Gwenn) takes him home to a rich man's stables, and thereafter, in due process of fate, the wharf rat whips...
...quarter of the boost would go to U.S. guided missile development, which has so far got into production the relatively short-range Nike, Terrier, Sparrow, Falcon, Corporal. Regulus, Matador and Honest John. The 1,000-to-1,500 mile range Intermediate Range Ballistics Missile with nuclear warhead, still on the drawing boards, would probably be the main new development. Research would also be heavily concentrated on the Intercontinental Ballistics Missile, which may have a thermonuclear warhead. Wilson cautioned that the I.C.B.M. is still at least five years away...