Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be the first to ban existing companies. Charles Stark Drapen Laboratories, located in Tech Square, has contracts with the Department of Defense totaling $140,000 and the firm's officials have said that 85 percent of Draper's work including development of guidance systems for the MX and Poseidon missiles-would be outlawed...
Mazzei, a former managing editor of Gentlemen's Quarterly, concurs: "Many people under 35 do not know how to behave in the business world." His answer to that problem is The New Office Etiquette (Poseidon Press; $13.95), which has been selling briskly since publication last month...
...break-in by intruders who also shot his wife and a live-in housekeeper; at their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled Lockheed's profits. A courtly Boston-born Harvard man who enjoyed such amenities as English-tailored suits and custom-made shoes, he could also answer half seriously, when...
Nancy Stevenson, whose state is home to a Poseidon missile factory and the nation's only weapons-grade plutonium plant: "These installations have been here for years, but I do think our people are now uncomfortably aware that South Carolina plays a far greater role than we would wish in nuclear matters." Even more remarkable has been the reception given to four saffron-clad Buddhist monks from Japan, who are trudging along highways in the South chanting prayers of peace. The monks believe that the ground they cross will be protected from nuclear war; they began their pilgrimage from...
Third, the program continues construction of Trident submarines--which carry 24 missiles as opposed to 16 carried by Poseidon subs--at a rate of one per year, initially to house the Trident-I, which is also being installed in existing Poseidon submarines. The program will also develop a larger 6000-mile range Trident-II missile for deployment on Trident submarines in 1989. It will also deploy several hundred submarine-launched missiles beginning in 1984. Both the cruise missiles and the Trident-II missiles will be much more accurate than current submarine-launched ballistic missiles; in the event that our land...