Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most rudimentary runways and also on ice, water, sand, swampland, and terrain dotted with obstacles, such as rocks half the height of the inflatable bag. Deflated in flight, the ACLG hugs the bottom of the aircraft without causing aerodynamic drag. "We consider the ACLG a complete technological breakthrough in landing systems," says David Perez, civilian project officer in the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell has won a second contract for $98,700 to study possible...
...despite the punishment being absorbed daily by the Communists, no one envisions any dramatic breakthrough in the military balance very soon. This prospect has already prompted both pro-and anti-war camps to cry ever more loudly for drastic changes in strategy, leaving President Johnson little choice but to press for considerably more substantial gains in the field to bulwark his Administration's showing before...
...hard talk was something else. As they toured the horizon, it became clear that neither side was going to open the way to a major breakthrough. Johnson found Kosygin temperate, intelligent, experienced, but firm. The U.S. must let the Vietnamese settle their problems, Kosygin insisted, but the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. should force a Middle East settlement?on largely Arab terms. They agreed on Israel's right to existence, but the two had already said so before; Kosygin had even mentioned it when citing the "new realities of the nuclear age" at the United Nations General Assembly earlier...
...BERLIN. Moscow did its best to squeeze the Allies (U.S., Britain, France) out of West Berlin with the blockade in 1948-49. Truman's characteristically spunky reply was the airlift, and another Soviet defeat. Again in 1959, after Nikita Khrushchev launched his rocket-rattling "breakthrough" policy, the Russians began threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, thereby isolating and possibly dooming West Berlin. The threat to Berlin, repeated in 1960 and 1962, was defused by U.S. troop reinforcements. The building of the Wall in 1961 to choke off the flow of escapees was tacit admission...
Died. Dr. Charles Armstrong, 80, an Ohio-born research physician for the National Institute of Health who, in 1939, cultured a strain of human polio virus that could paralyze mice, thus giving scientists a low-cost laboratory animal, a breakthrough that inaugurated 16 years of intense research, climaxing in development of the Salk vaccine; of uremia; in Chevy Chase...