Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instant coffee (and sometimes a Scotch-and-water), rounded up a 45-man special-projects staff, set up his offices in the old Munitions Building in Washington. He made a target date of 1963, put his men and contractors to work on system-development projects that enveloped the whole weapon-a new kind of nuclear sub, fuels, missiles, guidance networks, navigation...
...firing within minutes (compared to 36 hours for the World War II version), throws a conventional or nuclear shell 15 miles. The U.S. 8-in. howitzer is comparable but less mobile. The Russians boast a 240-mm. breech-loading mortar that doubles as an infantry and short-range artillery weapon. While its value in modern warfare is questionable, the U.S. has no counterpart...
...priceless-to-science" body of Laika, the Russian dog still orbiting in Sputnik II, rival spaceships battled grimly last week with every weapon still unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...
...Seattle, radio was preparing to launch a new campaign-against TV. Inspired by TV's experiments with subliminal perception, enterprising radio station KOL planned to use TV's own secret-pitch technique as its weapon. This week, behind the playing of some of its 40 hit disks, KOL will murmur some insidious suggestions: "TV is a crashing bore," "Goodness, isn't TV dull?" and "Those TV westerns are all the same." Planned but scissored at the last minute: "TV gives you eye cancer." Says a KOL executive: "These jazzy little radio subliminals may not take anybody...
Undaunted, fearless, courageous, Crimson and Tech epee fencers picked up their foils and proceeded to have it out with that weapon...