Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That support comes none too soon. As Aerospace Engineer Jerry Grey explains in his intriguing new insider's history of the space program, Enterprise, the shuttle has presented as many political problems as technical ones ever since its conception in the 1960s. Denounced as a "senseless extravaganza in space" by Vice President Walter Mondale while he was still in the Senate, the shuttle created such a furor that NASA was repeatedly forced to compromise its design. In the present version, the orbiter looks much like a bloated DC-9. It will rise vertically off the pad on the back...
...dismantle their 308 huge S59 and SS-18 missile launchers. Their firepower, said Baker, is "equal to all of our strategic ballistic missile systems put together." Drastic cuts actually had been suggested by Carter two years ago-and immediately ridiculed by the Soviets. In fact, the U.S. in the 1960s decided against building anything like the Soviets' SS-9s and SS-18s, which are liquid-fueled ICBMs, and developed instead the smaller and more accurate, solid-fueled Minuteman missiles. Moreover, the SALT I agreement, signed by President Nixon in 1972, and the Vladivostok agreement signed by President Ford...
During the 1960s, the motorcycle gang known as the Hell's Angels roared its way through the California Dream, its leather-jacketed and swastikaed members terrorizing entire towns with lead pipes and bike chains. It now appears that the gang has turned itself into a conglomerate of sorts: 18 Angels were arraigned in San Francisco on conspiracy charges, and federal officials claimed in a 31-page indictment that the gang trafficked extensively in illegal drugs, including heroin, cocaine, LSD and speed. They also contended that gang members had murdered and threatened murder in order to protect their share...
When thousands of badly deformed babies were born in the early 1960s to women who had taken the tranquilizer thalidomide, the tragedy underscored a brutal fact of life: would-be mothers exposed to drugs during pregnancy can endanger the health of their offspring. Indeed, doctors have long assumed that the mother alone is responsible for chemically induced birth defects. The father was considered blameless. At worst, a male's lifestyle-whether he took drugs, for example, or smoked or drank-might affect his own health but not that of his child. Now some doctors are beginning to suspect that...
...Night, won critical plaudits for its stark depiction of teen-age alienation, loneliness and savage cruelty-themes he later developed in the psychological western Johnny Guitar and the '50s cult film starring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause. Ray's fortunes faded in Hollywood in the 1960s, not to be revived by blockbuster fiascos he made abroad...