Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark, mile-wide cloud far above the lower atmosphere. It was a cloud that cast a shadow as far away as Washington. Last week U.S. intelligence sources reported that the test, conducted in September, involved a remarkable new anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system that could represent a major breakthrough...
...next few weeks, however, as the weather grows brisker, the midi's real test of popularity will come. When it does, the midi will have to score a clean, single-season breakthrough if Fairchild is to preserve his image as the No. 1 influence in fashion. A partial victory might convince the casual onlooker of his continued primacy, but it would not fool manufacturers and retailers with storerooms full of dresses they cannot sell. Because he has gambled so heavily and because the industry stands to lose so much, Fairchild could not emerge from a defeat of the midi without...
...increasing at two and a half times the rate of the general population. If the average life-span is significantly further increased, the population would indeed become aged, a trend which would be accelerated by a drop in the birth rate. As to vigor, when the breakthrough comes in aging research, people in their 70s and 80s should have the energy of those in their 50s and 60s today. Ideally this would produce a greater number of selfless, highly educated wisemen who could undertake complex new projects for the benefit of mankind. But few believe that it would work this...
...proliferation of bores abroad? One obvious answer is that there are more of them simply because there are more people; a more telling reason may be that there are more bores because there is more communication. The high-speed richochet of news around the world has been a breakthrough for the bores. Never until now have these trudging pedestrians of the human spirit been able to do their tiresome thing for so many heavy-lidded audiences...
...flotilla of speedy (over 40 knots) French-built missile boats, the last five of which were smuggled out of Cherbourg in December in defiance of France's arms embargo. Each Sa'ar (Hebrew for storm) carries eight Gabriels. According to Pentagon specialists, the missile represents a technological breakthrough and greatly outperforms the Soviet Styx system, which the Egyptian navy used to sink the Israeli destroyer Elath in 1967. Its guidance is self-contained, combining both infra-red (heat-seeking) and radar-homing techniques. The Gabriel hunts down its target at such low levels that it becomes coated with...