Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head of the company's international sales. Under Macdonald, the company's overseas operations grew to equal its domestic organization. Macdonald, now 54, was appointed president last January, will succeed Eppert as chief executive officer Feb. 1. His expectation: annual sales of $1 billion by the early 1970s...
Impressive Beginnings. With some justification, many Filipinos resent the volume of U.S. aid to Viet Nam and Thailand, and one of Marcos' objectives in visiting Washington was to warn that without more U.S. help, the Philippines could well turn into the Viet Nam of the 1970s. Absurd? Only 15 years ago, the Communist Huk guerrillas came perilously close to taking over the nation. Even now, central Luzon is seeing a recrudescence of Huk terror as some 1,000 armed guerrillas, supported by an estimated 27,000 peasants, prowl the forests...
...cost of developing the FB-111 would be a fraction of the $1.5 billion it would take to work up a totally new long-range bomber. The Air Force and its backers in Congress reply that a completely new "advanced, manned strategic aircraft" is needed for the mid-1970s, deride the FB-111 as an interim bomber that would not be even so effective as advanced versions of the B-52. The fight over the TFX, like the plane itself, seems to be entering a new phase...
...costs of developing the Poseidon (or C3) missile, which the Defense Department envisions as Polaris' successor on the Navy's missile-carrying subs. Three feet longer than the 31-ft. Polaris, carrying almost twice its 1.5-megaton payload, the Poseidon is expected to be operational in the 1970s...
...tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence. The French timetable calls for the missiles to be ready by 1969, followed by Polaris-type submarines in the early 1970s...