Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This breakthrough dramatically illustrates American technological superiority over the Russians. But it also poses difficult problems in arms control. The advances add one more complex variable to the equation of mutual deterrence. About 75% of the Soviets' 3,500 warheads are carried by land-based missiles that would be vulnerable to the Mk-12A (in contrast, more than 60% of the 8,500 American warheads are mounted on Poseidon and Polaris missiles in submarines). Understandably, the Soviet Union is concerned about the new American warheads. Last week Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute, which analyzes American...
...will consist of general save-energy pitches. Says Siegel, who is coordinating the p.r. drive with Schlesinger's press aide Jim Bishop: "We cannot really act in terms of legislation until the people are convinced that there is a crisis. We feel that there's been a breakthrough in that regard, and we're going to take advantage of it." Oddly, though, the White House talks down the whole campaign; Press Secretary Jody Powell would have reporters believe there is no orchestrated drive...
...decaying city are the great mineral mines and hardware shops of the nation. Break them down and re-use the parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and transport to give us energy in the amounts we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too dangerous, the technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion that we hoped for never took place, and solar batteries are too expensive to maintain on the earth's surface in sufficient quantity...
Look for the breakthrough to come in basketball. With millions of fans killing each other for high-priced NBA tickets, the day will come when thousands of fans will begin to turn to more readily available admissions to games in a new professional women's league, and the media will respond to this fan action. That will be the "shot heard round the world" in the revolution over women's athletics...
...secret talks in this city, which such a short time ago was the target for American bombs and focus of bitter American dissent, the U.S. delegation succeeded in establishing what Woodcock called a "bridgehead" toward normal diplomatic relations. The next day, the Vietnamese provided more tangible evidence of the breakthrough by giving the delegation the bodies of twelve pilots-their names had been announced last September -for return to the U.S. In addition, the Vietnamese disclosed that they had found a 13th pilot's remains, and they said they would step up the search for other bodies. Spurred...