Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason why both sides were eager to start at this particular time is that the superpowers have reached a delicate balance of terror. After a crash program to install more S59 and SS-11 land-based missiles, the Soviets apparently feel that they have reached parity with the U.S. Even so, each side realizes that it does not possess sufficient first-strike power to render the other side incapable of a nuclear riposte that would gravely damage the attacker. The Soviets have about 1,350 land-based intercontinental missiles, compared with 1,054 U.S. ICBMs. The Russian missiles are larger...
Died. Donald J. McParland, 40, president of British Newfoundland Corp. Ltd., the Canadian firm charged with developing the immense $1 billion Churchill Falls hydroelectric complex in Newfoundland; in the crash of a company jet that claimed the lives of five other project executives; near Labrador City, Newfoundland. McParland's death was the second tragedy to strike the project, biggest of its kind in North America; his predecessor, Donald Gordon, died of a heart attack last...
...interim, we had been picked up by a VW jammed full of people, just missed participating in one near car crash, hunted out an all-night theatre only to find it mysteriously closed, and prowled around the grounds of the National Cathedral in search of someplace to sleep...
...matter. What does matter is what they do agree on: It is all no use. No use to go on living in a world where all we can wait for is the inevitable senseless killing- the death that comes more and more from a war, a riot, a plane crash, a sniper's bullet...
...create a new battery that would enable the electrics to match the performance of conventional cars, says Dr. J.H.B. George of Arthur D. Little Inc., would take "hundreds of millions of dollars in a crash research program, or 50 to 100 years." As an alternate solution, G.E.'s Bruce Laumeister reckons, it is now possible to recharge today's batteries in a few minutes-but only with heavy-duty circuits and chargers that cost far more than the car itself...