Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diminutive Ecuadoran, thrice intercollegiate champ while at the University of Miami, is best known for his two-fisted forehand. Like Kid Gavilan's "bolo punch," the weapon is crowd pleasing but not necessarily any more effective than the orthodox technique...
Replying to Truman's Kansas City remarks last week, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy pointed out that a special board of top U.S. nuclear physicists had unanimously agreed that the Russians had tested an atomic weapon device. Said the committee: "Never in the history of intelligence has such clear-cut evidence been examined so exhaustively, so often to arrive at the same simple and unavoidable conclusion." It was possible that Truman was right and everybody else wrong. Even so, it was odd that he had waited until he left the White House before exhibiting his doubts...
...Northern Rhodesia's underpaid black miners recently struck back at their startled employers with a 20th century weapon: a strike that lasted for months...
...service at home & abroad. Then he followed his brother into Sullivan & Cromwell. During World War II, he was the OSS chief in Switzerland, where he pieced together priceless bits of intelligence collected from Allied spies, neutral travelers and anti-Hitler Germans. The information he obtained about the Nazi V-weapon program led to the bombing of the research center and set the program back at least six critical months. After the war, he wrote a now-it-can-be-told book about Germany's Underground. He went to work for CIA in 1950, became deputy director in August...
...love your correspondents, especially Mr. Willcox. Ever since the Dean of Canterbury returned from China with a story of how the U.S. was using infected grasshoppers as a diabolical weapon in germ warfare against the "People's Republic," I thought the limit of human credulity had been reached (Remember? The village kids picked up the plague-bearing insects with chopsticks!) At least Mr. Willcox clears up one mystery, i.e., why grasshoppers ? Of course! Mao had killed the flies. Might the undersigned . . . ask why Mao did not kill the grasshoppers too? Also just...