Word: pushbutton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pushbutton. The People's Party, while far from eager to see Otto back home, was willing to abide by the court ruling. Not so the Socialists. "This court has replaced the parliamentary organ," said Socialist Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky. Socialist leaders hinted a nationwide rail and electrical strike if Otto tried to cross the border into Austria. "All we have to do," said Kreisky, "is push a button...
...advantage of Minuteman is that its three engines use solid fuel. Thus, while the already deployed, liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan* take 15 minutes to fire, Minuteman can blast out of its hole within 32 seconds of the trigger command -the first truly pushbutton transoceanic weapon. The use of a solid propellant also eliminates the complex plumbing and finicky maintenance problems of the earlier missiles. Minutemen can be turned out faster than their silos can be emplaced. Once deployed, they require no major maintenance for three years. At a systems cost of $3,400,000 per missile, Minuteman costs...
...Newest symptom of pushbutton living is the Feller-Matic Insect Control Unit, which is said to be death on flying varmints, harmless to people, pets, wildlife and vegetation. A network of copper or plastic pipe is laid around the garden, patio or swimming pool, with nozzles set inconspicuously at intervals. The plumbing is connected to a tank of water-base Pyraid insecticide; when the owner flicks a switch, a pump jets the lethal mist over the area. A two-minute spray is effective for about half a day, gives off a pleasant lemon odor. The device is made by Feller...
...Whiz Kid lingo is taken as stupidity. The best of the old soldiers long ago tried to get sophisticated themselves in developing and using the advanced weapons, and planning the strategy and tactics of modern warfare. These men think that they will be the ones who, even in a pushbutton war, will have to do the fighting, and that the military tradition they are imbued with-of courage, stubbornness, independence, imagination, and self-respect-will be required of them and those who serve under them. All this, they believe, the new young men regard too lightly...
...down the sheer glass wall-to-wall windows of Manhattan's new skyscrapers, sealed eternally shut to keep conditioned air within, creep caged steel scaffolds, hung from cables and grooved to the buildings' ribs. Controlled by pushbutton, equipped with telephone, they are manned by a squad of window washers plying sponge and squeegee with a freedom and speed unknown to their brothers of the old-fashioned safety belt. But now scaffolds have been grounded...