Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...POSEIDON ADVENTURE...
...Poseidon, bound from New York to Athens on her last voyage, is struck by "an enormous wall of water" and capsizes out of sight of land. Many passengers are killed immediately, others die slowly of injuries sustained during the first impact or in subsequent, secondary disasters such as floodings and explosions. The only slim hope of survival is to crawl torturously up through the gutted bowels of the ship toward the hull, where the steel is thinnest, hoping that after agonizing hours, help will arrive...
...Poseidon's passenger list is a manifest of stereotypes, her cargo clichés. The hero is Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman), a sort of seagoing Malcolm Boyd who exhorts his shipboard congregation to "have the guts to fight for yourself-God loves brave souls." Also among the survivors are a beefy cop (Ernest Borgnine) and his new wife, a reformed whore (Stella Stevens); a teen-age girl (Pamela Sue Martin) and her obnoxious little brother (Eric Shea); an aging Jewish couple (Shelley Winters and Jack Albertson) en route to the holy land; a timid haberdasher (Red Buttons...
...bring a savings of $5.8 billion annually. But Pentagon leaders insist that all of this sum?and more?will be needed for other military purposes. For one thing. President Nixon has ordered up several new strategic-weapons systems, including North American Rockwell's B-1 bomber and Lockheed's Poseidon missile. Nixon expects defense costs to rise from $76.5 billion in this fiscal year to $83 billion by fiscal...
...SALT talks have dragged on, the Pentagon has been pushing for stepped-up development of bigger and better strategic weapons. Meanwhile, the Air Force has deployed its first squadron of 50 Minuteman 3 missiles at Minot Air Force Base, N. Dak., and the Navy has sent on patrol a Poseidon-equipped submarine with 16 MIRV missiles carrying ten to twelve warheads apiece...