Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more signs that the long-discussed Wankel has finally shifted up from being Detroit's vague "engine of the future" to a much more imminent status. The auto industry's growing number of Wankel watchers, including the authoritative trade magazine Ward's Auto World, an early booster, predict that Detroit will be mass-producing rotary engines in three years or so, and that by the end of the decade, more than half of all new domestic cars will be powered by them...
...were run with the decorum of a D.A.R. meeting, the sheer logistics of bringing it all together are incredibly elaborate. Miami Beach, a normally garish but placid corridor of resorts and retirement (the median age of permanent residents is 65), is looking forward to the twin bill with a booster's pride and a bit of trepidation...
Perhaps the most important new piece of equipment required for the mission will be a so-called docking module. To be built by the U.S. at an estimated cost of $50 million and carried aloft in the second stage of the Saturn booster, the cylinder-10 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter-will be pulled from the booster by the Apollo command ship. In position between Apollo and Soyuz during the docking, it will act as an essential decompression chamber for men passing from Soyuz's "normal" atmosphere of 70% nitrogen and 30% oxygen (at sea-level pressure...
...control, or the bomb, having "memorized" the picture of the target with its built-in electronic brain, can aim itself for a direct hit. The Walleye is employed mainly against bridges and other large targets. An even more sophisticated "EO" (electro-optical) missile called the Maverick has a rocket booster, which enables it to maneuver, so that it can fly into caves where North Vietnamese have hidden artillery pieces and other essential military supplies...
Simone de Beauvoir carefully weighs the few whose testimony treats old age as a period of spiritualization. Among them are senescence's biggest booster, Victor Hugo, who wrote: "Fire is seen in the eyes of the young, but it is light that we see in the old man's eyes." Miss de Beauvoir's judgment of that: "Mystical twaddle." Her heroes are not those who praise decline but the men who fight the body's disintegration, like Tolstoy, who learned to bicycle at 67, and Goethe, who at 64 could ride a horse for six hours...