Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Thomas Edward Murray, 69, outspoken Democratic member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-57), who upheld the AEC's 4-1 "no confidence" vote against Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954, fought for Government development of atomic power plants, production of smaller nuclear weapons, cessation of hydrogen bomb tests, but last year urged the U.S. to resume underground tests to create a relatively "clean" neutron bomb as a "third-generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray...
...Monell Medal and a whopping $25,000 for directing the AEC's extraordinarily successful uranium prospecting and extraction program. Another $25,000, and congratulations from President Kennedy, went to a trio of Army civilian engineers for developing a nuclear explosive that has yet to be tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary of the Army, and Milton E. Epton and Mrs. Irving Mayer, representing her late husband, got $5,000 each for the construction of an atomic warhead light enough for the infantry's one-man Davy Crockett rocket...
Germination has already begun in parts of the South, is relentlessly moving northward (see map). The great, hopeful new weapon against the enemy is the "pre-emergence" killer, but the big question for the thousands who doused their lawns with the new chemicals is: Will they work? Five companies this year are marketing such products, most of them priced between $9 and $10 for a package covering about 2,500 sq. ft.: Scott's Halts, Dow's Crab Grass Killer, Vaughan's Pre-Kill, Pax's Crabgrass and Soil Pest Control, Swift's Rid; others...
...long and bitter battle between the railroads and the truckers, the railroads are making new gains by inducing their opponents to defect. Their weapon: piggybacking, the carrying of freight-loaded truck bodies on railroad flatcars...
...Vienna rivals in seeing the uses that the neurotic makes of anxiety. If it blocks his activity, it permits him to retreat to a previous state of security, to evade decisions and responsibility?and. therefore, dangers. Also, as happens in many families, it can be forged into a weapon for dominating others, who would rather yield to unreasonable demands than be made to feel guilty...