Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...known as the Argonauts?Onassis practiced a clever technique of self-financing. Because the oil companies were unwilling to tie up cash reserves in new hulls, he only asked them for long-term (seven years or more) charters to haul their crude. Armed with the charters, he made firm contracts with shipbuilders, banks and insurance concerns, pointing out that the new tankers, with life spans of up to 25 years, would earn back their cost in roughly a third of their working life...
...first strategic decisions facing the next President will be whether or not to construct a "thick" defensive network of anti-ballistic missiles that might cost $40 billion. Humphrey doubts the wisdom of doing that; Nixon has expressed no firm position. Another national concern is the nuclear nonproliferation treaty-an attempt to stop other countries, including some erratic new ones in Asia and Africa, from building and brandishing atomic bombs. To prevent such possible nuclear blackmail, Humphrey urges quick U.S. ratification of the treaty. Nixon has called for a delay because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His critics point...
...Europe. Whatever NATO's condition, the Soviets must also reckon that any invasion of Western Europe might bring down the full force of the U.S. nuclear deterrent on the Russian homeland-and World War III. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford visited West Germany and West Berlin to convey firm assurance of U.S. protection. A few days later, Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach flew to Belgrade for talks with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who is feeling pressure from Moscow...
...British manufacturer of bidets. A self-made man, he prizes decisiveness, precision, strength of character. A widower, he marries a genteel second wife (June Emery) and hires a miniskirted, sexually provocative secretary (Valerie French) in the same week. He invites his wife's brother (John Tillinger) into the firm. His wife becomes her brother's secretary, and the pair indulge in faintly incestuous reminiscences of days on a gracious country estate-but are they really sister and brother...
Under David Sarnoff, the Army Reserve officer who helped found the firm back in 1919, the Radio Corporation of America grew into a giant largely by feeding on itself: it manufactured radio and TV sets, then created a market for them by beaming programs over its NBC network subsidiary. "The General," 77 and ailing, is still board chairman, but RCA is now run by his son, President Robert W. Sarnoff, 50, who has chosen to move the firm into other fields. The younger Sarnoff, who has already engineered RCA's long-reach acquisitions of Hertz Corp. and the publishing...