Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a truly revolutionary aircraft, flying at 2,000 m.p.h. at 80,000 ft. for distances, without refueling, of some 6,000 miles. The Air Force wants to spend $491 million next fiscal year (beginning July 1) on a program that would put the first RS-70s in operation by 1967, build up a fleet of 150 by 1970, at a total cost of some $10 billion. Secretary of Defense Robert Mc-Namara wants to spend $171 million next year on a throttled-back program aimed merely at developing three prototype RS-70s. The argument between the Air Force...
...Vinson, insisting that the U.S. will continue to need such bombers for some time, want to spend $491 million next fiscal year on a crash program to develop the RS-70. McNamara and President Kennedy want to spend only $171 million to continue development of three prototype RS-70s...
...fleet of 150 RS-70s called for by the Air Force would cost $10 billion by 1970, more than half of the Air Force budget for this year...
...when the Air Force would just be getting its RS-70s into operation, the U.S. will be protected by over 1,000 Atlas, Titan and Minuteman missiles, plus 650 Polaris missiles carried by submarines and more than 700 B-52s and B-58s. Without a single RS-70, said McNamara, U.S. retaliatory forces "would achieve practically complete destruction of the enemy target system-even after absorbing an initial nuclear attack...
...three dozen sharp, perceptive books to her credit. A Dame Commander of the British Empire, she was a witty, brittle bird of a woman who spread panic in the streets with her ancient auto, regularly bicycled down to bathe in London's Serpentine when she was in her 70s, and published a satirical bestseller (The Towers of Trebizond) when...