Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tree's hero Harry Wesley is an English Nobel-prizewinning biologist with a yen to help humanity. His secret weapon is desoxyribonucleic acid. Injected into a plant or tree, this chemical will increase phenomenally the size and quality of the yield. An enterprising Italian government official named Pozzo feels that this is just the cure for the barren poverty of southern Italy. Above the Bay of Salerno, on some terraced soil blessed by Pozzo's cardinal uncle, Harry Wesley sets out to grow a super...
...Crimson's best weapon is the sabre, with Manuel Cabral in the first position. Bill Trebilcock, the team captain, has a 10-2 record in Ivy competition in the foil and should do well in this class, though Yale's best foilman, Peter Pohly, has beaten him every time they have...
This, then, is not a book about academic freedom so much as about the academic world. Its value is not as a weapon in the arsenal of civil liberties, but as a first step towards understanding the academic mind.ROBERT M. HUTCHINS...
...ICBMs and the medium-range ballistic missile Thor; 2) the U.S. will close the gap around 1964 to the U.S.S.R.'s disadvantage when the Air Force deploys its "second-generation" solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM in hundreds of underground silos as the missile age's first true mass weapon...
Beyond that, the solid-fuel Minuteman is still in the primary stages, is by no means the sure gap-closer for 1964 that Administration estimates indicate. The point: the Administration ought not to bet so heavily in strategic doctrine upon a weapon still in its infancy. And the U.S. deterrent to war will not deter unless it is backed up by enough protected missiles to strike the retaliatory blow...