Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic books and plan the nation's pushbutton defenses, a sizable band of Air Force planners are quietly at work developing that oldfashioned, tried and true device, the manned airplane. By their reckoning, the nation will need the manned bomber through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Their promising candidate to succeed today's B-52 bombers: the B70 Valkyrie, an airplane that makes Buck Rogers' spaceship look like a model...
...early-warning-and-missile defense become available. Among the wild-blue-yonder possibilities: 1) observation of the Communist land mass from space satellites in the 1960s (see SCIENCE); 2) creation of anti-missile radiation belts-"death rays"-that might make sectors of sky impassable to missiles by the 1970s-1980s, much as they have in space fiction for years...
...longtime Chicago corporation lawyer who has been Under Secretary since 1953, served as President Hoover's youthful Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A subpar golfer during student days at Princeton, Cambridge and Harvard Law, he advanced in 1921 to the British Amateur quarterfinals, still shoots in the mid-1970s, though he plays only occasionally...
...same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power demonstration' stations in operation by 1960, but with their large energy resources, the needs of these two countries for commercial nuclear electricity in the 1960s should be limited to a few special areas...