Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson was reported to have appeared depressed and nervous prior to his disappearances from New Haven. He is also known to have purchased in New Haven a 22 caliber pistol, the weapon used in the Colorado shooting, within the past few weeks...
...Secret Weapon. In Edgeware. England, just before a game with nearby Rainham, the town's dejected soccer team took time out for a session with Psychotherapist J. (for Joshua) Sparrow, who gave a "psychological pep-talk" to the players "to bring out their latent ability," succeeded so well that Edgeware won its first victory of the season...
...Europe, to be assigned to the NATO forces. Its armament: six of the Army's new 85-ton, 280-mm. cannons, designed for firing atomic projectiles. Five more atomic battalions will follow within a year, giving General Alfred Gruenther and his SHAPE high command a weapon which might, if the circumstances were ideal, neutralize the huge numerical superiority of Russian ground forces...
...Johannesburg, a pudgy, sad-faced little Hindu unlimbered the weapon with which his father tumbled an empire. Manilal Gandhi, 60-year-old son of India's revered Mahatma, was under sentence of $150 fine or 50 days in jail for his part in a deliberate protest violation of South Africa's rigid race-segregation laws. Last week Manilal withdrew his appeal and surrendered to Transvaal police. Said he: "My rightful place as a self-respecting person is in prison ... By my voluntary sufferings, I seek to melt the hearts of the government...
Since the end of World War II, the Navy has been worried about bottlenecks in the electronics industry which might slow up war production in a national emergency. While electronic equipment is used in almost every modern weapon, as well as a wide variety of peacetime products, the industry relies largely on handwork (i.e., soldering and wiring) to put together complicated assemblies. Any major expansion of the industry, the Navy realized, would be slow and costly, and would call for big additions of skilled manpower that would not be available...