Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oceangoing ships totaling 10 million tons, ranks sixth in the world, after Liberia (actually a "flag of convenience" for ships of many nations), Britain, the U.S., Norway and Japan. At its current million-ton-a-year growth rate, the U.S.S.R. could well be at the top by the early 1970s...
...planes fly higher, the risk of collisions with space fragments may also rise. In the 1970s, supersonic transports (SSTs) will be soaring at 70,000 ft. -nearly twice the ceiling of present-day passenger jets. In that rarefied atmosphere, space garbage is still more of a menace; the tiniest fragment could puncture the metal skin of an SST. Pentagon, NASA and commercial aviation officials all concede the dimensions of the future problem. But at present, the only formal warning system for commercial aviation is Herb Roth's part-time effort...
...they do so and remain more or less human? "The answer," says Owings, "has to be yes, and the strategy of accomplishment must come in the next 15 years. The urgency is greater than that of developing the atomic bomb in the 1940s or reaching the moon in the 1970s...
Such a system-which has been seriously proposed for more than fifty years-may yet become a reality in the 1970s, although the prospect seems remote at present. One major problem: the anachronistic and potentially mischievous Electoral College should be abolished before the U.S. seriously contemplates instituting a national primary. Otherwise, the nation would have a popular primary without a purely popular general election...
...practical preliminary step toward planetary voyages, suggested Spacecraft Center Director Robert R. Gilruth, would be to orbit a giant, cigar-shaped capsule around the earth in the mid-1970s. The big space station, said Gilruth, would be 615 ft. long, carry a crew of 100, and rotate end-over-end 31 times a minute to create an artificial gravity for those on board. Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea...