Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many in both Wall Street and Washington still felt that some rise in defense was likely. The Defense Department's statement last week-that no increase in defense spending is needed-got a cool reception from Congress. Such plans as Army modernization and the Polaris program should be reviewed...
Electra's troubles have already been a heavy blow to Lockheed. When the planes were first delivered, airlines complained about vibration, and Lockheed spent some $7,000,000 changing the slant of the planes' engines to correct it. Since the new troubles, Lockheed's stock has been...
The Obvious. In the slow, careful phrases of Chairman George H. Mahon, a tough-minded Texan who has tackled his job as a Defense Department watchdog with fierce integrity, the report spelled the real meaning of the deterrent. The mixed force, said Mahon & Co., not only makes it tough for...
As he stood before the House of Commons last week, Defense Minister Harold Watkinson wore the pained expression of a man treading on nettles. "In the light of our military advice," intoned Watkinson, "we have concluded . . . that we ought not to continue to develop, as a military weapon, a missile...
Schedules & Warheads. Designed around cumbersome liquid-fueled engines, Blue Streak can only be shot from complex fixed bases. As evidenced by this winter's 7,700-mile Pacific shoot, Russian rockets have proved accurate enough to knock them all out with a single barrage. What Britain needs is a...