Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Losing Faith. Last July, on the day Nasser seized the canal, Minister of State Saeb Salam, No. 2 man in the Lebanese government and good friend of Nasser's, brought a new weapon into the negotiations: a tax decree that abrogated the tax exemption granted I.P.C. (retroactive five years) as well as the exemption for the American-owned Tapline, which carries oil from the Saudi Arabian fields to Sidon. Salam slapped a $13 million tax bill on I.P.C., gave the company until Sept. 29 to pay, under the threat of a heavy fine. Salam had hoped to play...
...chief offensive weapon of this backfield is its speed. Besides Boland, who ran the third leg on a record-tying American Championship 80-yard relay quartet at the Penn Relays last Spring, the Big Red boasts two of the fastest halfbacks in its history...
Armed with an atom bomb, even the peaceful Terrapin would be a formidable weapon. A dozen or more could be carried in an Army truck. They could be unloaded, aimed and fired by the truck's crew. Each rocket could have its own launching gear, allowing salvo firing and the range would be something like 150 miles. Accuracy would not be good, but this would make little difference. The cheap, light missiles could be fired in dense patterns like shot from a chokebore shotgun, and each would have enough power to knock out a good-sized city...
Unlike the conventional triangular division, with its top-heavy headquarters units and its sizable "land-tail" (heavy weapon units, regimental tank companies, etc.), all of the new division and its specially designed, lightweight equipment can be airlifted. At its heart will be five self-supporting battle groups, each 1,580 men strong, and each containing a 155-man 105-millimeter mortar group and a small (220) headquarters outfit. The groups, broken down into five battle companies each, will be backed up in combat by an atom-armed 140-man Honest John rocket detachment, by a 500-man 105-howitzer group...
...months, soft-spoken Record-Spinner Shepherd fired off occasional jazz salvos 4½ hours a night, seven nights a week, for Mutual's WOR (blanketing 13 states). But Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...