Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the B-70, designed by North American, is still in development stages, the first tactical wing of B-70s (45 aircraft) is scheduled to become operational in only five years. It will be costly: prototypes will run upwards of $150 million apiece, and the whole program will run to $3.5 billion by 1965. A Defense Department budget slash last week killed off plans for the last far-out supersonic interceptor, the Mach3 North American F-108. Air Force flyboys trust and hope that the $2.4 billion savings will help support the B70 project when it comes under the budget...
...present hopes for boron-powered planes that would get 40% more energy out of a pound of fuel, thus increase their range (or speed) without adding weight. The Navy has already spent $122 million in the program, the Air Force another $110 million. The first group of 20 B-70s with boron afterburners would have cost $3.5 billion, and the boron fuel to power them would have been about 100 times more expensive than conventional, petroleum-product fuel...
...Florida, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 66, now board chairman of the Bulova Watch Co., put on a sourdough getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew. He really knows...
...mainly a solid family man. He lives unostentatiously at Sands Point, L.I., has few cronies and owns but two cars, a Cadillac and a Thunderbird. His wife Roselle, whom he married 25 years ago in Canonsburg, does the cooking; he sometimes dries the dishes. His interests are golf (high 70s) and his three children. Chief entertainment: watching TV while sprawled on a couch in his den, and writing congratulatory telegrams to TV comedians...
...Titans to replace SAC bombers. So the Administration is partially leapfrogging the Atlas-Titan generation. During the early 1960s the U.S. will continue to rely for much of its retaliatory power on SAC's manned bombers. Meanwhile, SAC will be kept updated, with B-58s and B-70s gradually replacing...