Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To casual kibitzers at Cape Canaveral, the Polaris missile that took off from a dry-land pad and soared successfully downrange may have represented simply one more test shot. To U.S. Navy technicians, the deadly bird signaled the start of a new era in U.S. rocketry. A revolutionary new control...
Lerner, who has just returned from seven years of studying problems of unity in Europe, said that only default on United States' undertaking in Berlin would be likely to prompt a major reevaluation in the immediate future. But as strategic weapons systems comparable to Minuteman and Polaris make nuclear deterrence...
But a scheduled 5,000-marcher protest against German NATO Panzer divisions now training in Wales fizzled out: only 400 marchers appeared. British labor refused a C.N.D. plea for a two-day strike against the resumption of nuclear testing. More important was the effect on Britain's powerful Trades...
Died. Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64, intuitive titan of the U.S. aircraft industry, an unmechanical, piano-playing Harvardman (class of '19) who made his first million by the age of 30, blew it manufacturing sport seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded...
Can the U.S. strike back? It certainly can. Some U.S. ICBMs are now ready to fly, and nuclear submarines are already at sea. each carrying 16 Polaris missiles ready to fire on signal. Other missiles, such as Thors and Matadors, are set to strike at Soviet centers from close-in...