Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombers-the faster and higher-flying the better-controlled by alert crews whose accuracy and judgment are as yet superior to those of unmanned vehicles. Last week the Air Force announced that it would contract with Los Angeles' North American Aviation, Inc. for development of the WS (for weapon system) -110A, an intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will use not the ordinary fuels such as kerosene and gasoline but materials probably composed, in part, of boron...
Last week Washington's eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission struck the hot-cargo weapon out of Hoffa & Co.'s hands. Ruling on a case in which nine trucking companies operating out of Oklahoma City had obeyed hot-cargo clauses in refusing to handle goods transported by a nonunion Texas trucker, ICC firmly declared that licensed "common carriers" operate under a "statutory obligation to serve the public" without discrimination-and that this "absolute" obligation cannot be set aside by any labor contract...
...seven hours to target as opposed to 15 to 30 minutes for the intercontinental ballistic missiles still under development. But Snark can carry thermonuclear warhead accurately to target at 5,000 milerange. And Snark, added or not with countermeasures to confuse enemy radar, is also a highly promising decoy weapon to lure enemy defenders away from main strike forces delivering the decisive blows elsewhere...
...Both African and Asian Moslems in the diocese accumulate wealth and slowly extend their influence. Their wealth, plus polygamy, enables them to win many young Catholic girls." Bishop Kiwanuka's second biggest problem: African nationalism, which is apt to view Christianity as a white man's weapon. The nationalist Bataka Party has sponsored an organized reversion to tribal forms of worship. Under Bishop Kiwanuka's leadership, 62,503 converts have joined his flock. "Even the young girls seduced into Moslem homes usually cling to their Catholic faith," he says. "At least they die as Catholics...
...Civil Rights Commission remains one of the potentially strongest features of the hard-fought rights bill. Its power to investigate, inform, and initiate legislative suggestions in the field of civil rights can prove a more effective weapon against intolerance and organized bigotry than the legal sanctions recently obtained...