Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hubert Humphrey smashed a champagne bottle against the flag-draped hull, and the 425-ft. U.S.S. Will Rogers slid down the ways into the Thames River. Thus the 41st-and last -nuclear-powered Polaris missile submarine was launched last week in the General Dynamics Corporation's yards at Groton, Conn. For the U.S., it marked the end of a historically successful effort to develop seapower able to strike any target on earth...
...Geyelin almost begrudgingly tells a story of worthwhile successes. During the Johnson Administration, the Alliance for Progress has moved from the vision stage of Kennedy's day to the point where practical progress is possible. Johnson extricated the U.S. from the multilateral force, the hapless NATO-nuclear-fleet concept that he inherited from the Kennedy Administration. Foreign aid was put on a hardheaded basis that demands results. New bridges of culture and trade are being extended toward Eastern Europe. China policy is being modified under the fresh slogan of "containment without isolation." Most important, Communist conquest of South Viet...
Rendell believes the Soviets' aim was to limit or prevent China's development as a nuclear power. They intended to dominate in the joint control arrangements, and expected China to become militarily dependent upon them as a result...
...Cloud Nine." The more than 100 airmen who got home were rhapsodic over their success in hitting targets that they have long ached to obliterate. When the nuclear-powered Enterprise finished an eight-month spell on Yankee Station off North Viet Nam in June, a squadron commander noted that the ship had launched more strike missions than any other carrier in a comparable period. Yet, he added ruefully, "we just haven't done the job we could have." Said a diplomat in Saigon: "How would you feel if you" were a pilot in the best air force...
...Mann is not tough at all, merely brutal. The book opens with Mann gratuitously killing an enemy who is already moribund. It ends with Mann's equally unnecessary murder of a woman with whom, following inflexible habit, he has shacked up. Between bloodlettings, Mann saves the world from nuclear destruction. It is a parody of Hammett, though an unconscious one, and it might be funny if Spillane could write...