Word: tripod
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...Alliances: "Internationally, Britain's strength rests upon a tripod of the Commonwealth, Europe, and the Atlantic Alliance. But a tripod is a particularly uncomfortable seat if one leg is shorter and weaker than the other, and so it must be the positive purpose of our foreign policy to strengthen all three...
When the first Mariner capsule soft-lands on Mars, the multivator will be tossed out at the end of an electronic umbilical cord. After settling its tripod feet firmly on the Martian surface, a miniature vacuum cleaner will suck dust into a thin-lipped opening in the multivator's base. As the dust filters through the multivator's 15 tiny chambers, it will stick to their adhesive-coated walls. Then the chambers will be automatically sealed and filled with water from a small external tank...
...Little John (twelve miles), a smaller version of Honest, with a 360° firing circle and designed for maximum mobility; it can be transported by helicopter or troop-carrying aircraft, or towed by a Jeep, and is fired like an artillery shell from a tripod launcher. »An 8-in. howitzer (ten miles), a rapid-fire job that can pepper 200-lb. projectiles at a rate of 90 per hour. »Davy Crockett (1,200 yds.), the Army's smallest and top-rated front-line weapon, a light, tube-fired piece designed for use against troop masses, tank clusters...
...long tradition of tribal government, and by the solid good sense of many African leaders whom the British groomed for self-rule-notably its federal Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1960). The greatest single assurance of stability has been Nigeria's tripod form of government, designed to prevent any one region from dominating the other two. That system is now in jeopardy, and with it the very future of Nigeria as a democracy and as a nation...
...Kodak Co., a sturdy Nebraska-born lawyer who started off his career with the world's biggest photographic company by refusing autocratic Founder George Eastman's offer to make him an officer of the firm, but subsequently relented and rapidly rose to the top of the Kodak tripod, where he expanded the company's sales 81% in 20 years by adding chemicals and plastics to its output; after a long illness; in Rochester...