Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the military needs most of all is clear guidance from civilian supervisors?both on Capitol Hill and in the White House?as to its role in the '70s. It has not always been forthcoming. If there is uncertainty about U.S. interests and intentions in Asia or Europe or the Middle East, if there is coasting on old assumptions that may no longer be valid, the military could occupy the vacuum by fashioning its own, probably parochial policy. Ironically, a retreat from its world responsibilities could be as dangerous for American society as an excess of interventionist zeal...
...which there are now 656 deployed in 41 vessels. They have a shorter range and smaller payload than the Minuteman series, but operate from mobile launching platforms that can generally evade detection while cruising. Three-quarters of the Polaris missiles are scheduled to be replaced during the early '70s with Poseidons, which will have MIRV capability...
...habit. Some time before he died at 94, Bernard Berenson confided to his diary: "Only in what might be called my old age have I become aware of sex and the animal in woman." William Butler Yeats, who finally married at 52, was well into his 70s before he began trumpeting the raw sexuality of The Wild Old Wicked Man. Victor Hugo, at 82, told the French Senate with a wicked exuberance: "It is difficult for a man of my years to address such an august body. Almost as difficult as it is for a man of my years...
...leagues' income from TV contracts into their fund; the owners are offering a flat $5.1 million. Kuhn, who listed player relations among his National League duties, is a skilled negotiator. But it will take more than persuasion for baseball to keep pace with the speedy '70s. Not only does the organization of the major leagues need to be restructured, but the game itself must be streamlined to attract the action-mad modern...
...founding fathers of computer dating and president of Operation Match (230,000 marriages in 4½ years is his claim), confirms the depressing visual evidence and goes into his pitch. "Singles," he recites, "are not just in their 20s, but in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and even 70s. Many of them have no interest in marriage, or in sex either, for that matter. Many are not even essentially lonely. What they are, most of them, is simply trapped in their own whirlpool. They go to work in the morning and come home at night, and they just...