Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's Minuteman. In an age of megaton H-bombs, mere kilotons sound strangely small, but the Minuteman warhead explodes with 20 times the force of the primitive, 20-kiloton A-bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. killing 78,-ooo people. Ranging down in power, the U.S. has a large group of small tactical nuclear weapons for use in light rockets, artillery shells, torpedoes, antisubmarine depth charges, air-to-air missiles, etc. The warhead of the air-to-air Genie, which is carried by interceptor planes, yields one-tenth kiloton (100 tons...
...last week, in self-deprecation, spoke the sexiest Salome since red-haired Ljuba Welitch. The occasion was a new production of the Strauss opera at Spoleto, Italy, the musical festival that draws some 120,-ooo tourists each summer. Singing the role of "that girl"-described in Oscar Wilde's play as having "veins filled with fire"-was a fine new Negro soprano: Virginia-born Margaret Tynes...
...even more tempting target for the Reds-and a standing contrast to the poverty-stricken Communist North. Helped along by $150 million in U.S. aid each year, the South is a hard-working country of paddyfields, coconut groves, rubber plantations and flourishing light industry. South Viet Nam exported 350,-ooo tons of rice last year, seven times the 1957 figure, and currency reserves swelled to a tidy $218 million. Per capita income has jumped 20% in five years, at $120 a year is one of the highest in Asia...
...Germany and Japan, will visit President Kennedy in Washington in November. Last month Ayub's government signed a $30 million oil exploration deal with Russia. Pakistan remains a staunch Western ally, gets some $250 million in aid from the U.S. annually, largely to help support its big (160,-ooo men) army...
...recession (statewide building was off 20%), communities are still going up at an amazing rate. The biggest, General Development's Port Charlotte on the lower west coast, has mushroomed from vacant land to a city of 7,000 in four years, is planned to hit 750,-ooo. The scramble for waterfront lots is so great that builders are turning parts of the state into little Venices, pushing fingers of land out into waterways and interlacing them with canals so that everyone can moor his boat at his own front door. The housing industry's hard-sell tactics, full...