Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, if distributed at home and abroad, could be an effective weapon for us. The publisher's price [$5] will prevent many from buying it. The solution is a subsidized paperback 50? edition with worldwide, free foreign-language copies. Since the U.S.S.R. holds and refuses payment of royalties owed American authors whose works have been published in Russia, the Pasternak royalties could be distributed among these unpaid American authors and credited to the balances owed them by the Russians...
Today, with that sort of wholesale terror past but still a vivid memory, China is ruled by a weapon sometimes called "brute reason"-the knowledge that each man has no alternative. On trains, in city squares and village centers, loudspeakers blare away from dawn till midnight, urging China's millions not to spit in the street, and to "work hard for a few years, live happily for a thousand." In schools, factories and offices the walls are plastered layers deep with painstakingly handwritten posters of exhortation and criticism: "Professor Chen's teaching methods are strictly reactionary...
Whether or not the teaching machines, in a generation or so, will become a major weapon in winning the battle for western technological supremacy; whether or not they will someday help equalize the supply of teachers with the demand; certainly that row of ten silent machines in Sever Hall is a harbinger of a nervous and not too brave new world.Pictures courteous of Psychological LaboratoriesThe Self-Instruction Room in Sever Hall. There are ten booths holding the teaching machines, some outfitted with indexing phonographs...
...Mideastern revolutions, the man out in front of the mob may not be leading it -he may be running for his life. Iraq's ruling General Karim Kassem is in the familiar situation; his army, which alone can overawe the mob, is an uncertain weapon. Kassem has already clapped in jail Colonel Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, his co-conspirator in the four-month-old revolt, as well as a dozen other suspect army officers. Kassem has also tried to placate the mob by alloting free seeds to farmers, and promising land reforms...
...weapons system has been more heavily guarded than the MOLE (Molecular Orbiting Low-Level Explorer). First hint of its existence came last spring when a Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass...