Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Argentine has seen its blurred face in the swirling landscape of a hundred tracks, known its angry snarl whenever his sports car skidded through a tight turn. But one evening last week he stared at danger in a new form: the muzzle of a pistol. Poking the weapon at him in the lobby of Havana's Hotel Lincoln was a tall young man in a leather jacket. "Fangio, you must come with me," he ordered. "I am a member of the 26th of July revolutionary movement." One of Fangio's friends picked up a paperweight...
Nuclear Batteries. Passing rapidly over these projects, Engineer Putt expressed enthusiasm for the military satellite that is being developed by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. under the various names of Pied Piper, ARS and Weapon System117L. By next July 1, he said, $50 million will have been spent on the Pied Piper, and $100 million more will be spent in fiscal 1959. The chief failing of present-day satellites is that their batteries run down too quickly to permit them to perform useful military duties such as worldwide reconnaissance. But the Air Force is working on four improved sources of power...
...strong as the earth's, it should be easier to shoot at the earth from the moon than in the other direction. The moon's lack of atmosphere might make it possible to catapult earth-bound missiles out of deep shafts. Both the moon base and its weapon launchers could be on the far side of the moon, forever invisible from the earth, but all of the turning earth could be examined from the moon with telescopes...
Yale has ben defeated by Harvard for the past two years running in epee. This year, however, the epee match will probably be closely fought. Yale lost to Princeton in that weapon 6-3, and the Tigers shut out the Crimson, 9-0. Henry Powell, top Bulldog epee man, is the most serious threat to the Harvard squad...
...Bulldogs lost to Princeton 6-3, and will probably find the Harvard sabre squad their most challenging weapon...