Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering the fact that the entire American cold war campaign has been based upon the assumption of cultural superiority coupled with military inferiority, it seems absurd that an intensification of the conflict should lead us to abandon our only effective weapon in the battle for men's minds. We are not, and cannot be, prepared to compete with the Russians in a get tough program. The American public, after all, will not tolerate for themselves either the political gangsterism demonstrated in the Hungarian episode, or the national impoverishment which would be required to match Soviet military potential. Our alternative must...
...most fronts the U.S. has moved ahead with giant strides in the development of new weapons. In the 15 years since Pearl Harbor its scientists have gone from TNT to the A-bomb to the H-bomb; its armed forces have gone from propeller-driven airplanes to supersonic jets to guided missiles; the Navy has moved from steam turbine to nuclear power to drive new ships. But the U.S. Army last week was still marching earnestly forward in search of a weapon it has been unable to perfect through ten years of research and testing: a new infantry rifle...
...might well have become the Army's basic infantry weapon, but while it was being developed and tested Belgium's famed Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre also brought out a new automatic. Dubbed the F.N., it was quickly adopted as the standard rifle of such NATO partners as Britain, France, Canada and Belgium. Rather than fall completely out of step, the Army ordered the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. tested competitively, wound up deciding the T 44 was still the rifle it wanted. From the Army's research and development staff came...
...bigger, more powerful infantry weapon is known as the Armalite (for "light armament"). Firing a .308-cal. round, it has the hitting power and range of the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. but weighs only 6.8 pounds because it is made of lightweight aluminum alloy and plastics, is so soundly constructed that it sacrifices neither accuracy nor sturdiness. Unlike almost any other rifle, the fully automatic Armalite can be manufactured on an assembly-line basis; it discards the traditional drilled steel barrel for a barrel liner made of stainless steel tubing, and swaged, i.e., forced by machine, into...
...team. In seven games, the Volunteers made the most of their breaks, picked up 15 enemy fumbles, turned nine of them into scores. In between, they fielded a fast, shifty, single-wing offense, built around the talents of Quarterback Johnny Majors. His unerring quick kicks became a sharp offensive weapon; his passes were almost always on target. On rollout, run-pass option plays he gave the best defense fits. His pixyish, mincing gait was faster than it looked, and he proved to be one of those rare backs who can run in one direction and fire a pass...