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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent soft landing of a working, instrumented capsule on the surface of Venus last October, a feat indicating that the quality of Russian planetary probes is beginning to catch up to the quantity. U.S. experts expect a rash of additional Russian planetary shots in 1969 and the early 1970s, including a Martian soft-landing attempt as early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Abandoning the Planets to Russia | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

...raising the country's gross national product by 9% a year; he also made Australia a major world supplier of iron ore, bauxite and alumina, as well as stepping up production of the copper, lead, zinc and coal that it has long produced. By the early 1970s, the government expects to be exporting $1 billion worth of minerals alone (v. $430 million last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Down to the Sea | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...that U.S. generals have been expecting the Communists to fade for at least two years and, though they are plainly sweating hard, they so far have shown no symptoms of evaporation. By its official plan, North Viet Nam figures to wear down the U.S. resolve by the early 1970s. Though the U.S. is winning the clear-cut battles, the Communists still may not be convinced that they are losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT NEGOTIATIONS IN VIET NAM MIGHT MEAN | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Though the Corsair II is not expected to edge out the two older planes before the early 1970s, the first of the new jets will soon see combat. When the carrier U.S.S. Ranger left Alameda, Calif., last week for Viet Nam waters, she had aboard a squadron of the deadly new beetles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Flying Volks | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...just over the horizon, along with a gross national product that seems likely to top a trillion dollars by the early 1970s, is an array of new machines, teaching methods, foods and other tools that will help man cope with such compelling problems. The next 50 years promise to provide even further evidence that the capitalist system is the most productive in human history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AND 50 YEARS OF CAPITALISM | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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