Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It all sprang from the Anglo-U.S. crisis over cancellation of the bug-ridden Skybolt missile, and the U.S. offer to supply Britain and France with the proved Polaris (TIME, Dec. 28). The one Allied leader who unreservedly welcomed the Polaris offer was Harold Macmillan, who by thus keeping...
Back from Nassau, the Prime Minister beamed that Britain now had a weapon that "will last a generation. The terms are very good." Many other Britons were not so sure. Though the government will shoulder none of the $800 million development cost of Polaris, it has already poured $28 million...
To most Britons last week, it seemed probable that a British Prime Minister and a U.S. President might never again be able to talk over their mutual problems with frankness and friendliness. On the contrary. John Kennedy was able to persuade Harold Macmillan that the issue at stake was not...
But Robert McNamara remains unimpressed; to him, Skybolt seems worth neither the cost nor the effort. Groans an Air Force strategist: ''They threw our Skybolt into a cost-effectiveness computer. and it came up 'tilt.' " If Skybolt's advocates insist on comparing their bird with...
In seeking to soothe the British, the U.S. made it clear that Britain is free to go ahead with Skybolt-at its own expense. But this would require an increase of about 30% in Britain's income tax-a prospect hardly palatable to any government, much less Prime Minister...