Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not be wiped out by a retaliatory attack? This would obviously disturb the "balance of terror" that has preserved an uneasy nuclear peace for the past two decades. Some American military men argue that any "defensive" Russian ABM system may actually be a sign of belligerence, a signal that its builders are preparing to make the first strike, while getting ready to ride out the U.S. response. Besides, the cold logic of deterrence works only when the opponent is capable of understanding it. What if the uneasy ruler of a new nuclear power were to make an irrational decision...
...unscheduled 1 a.m. conference. It was then that Kosygin relayed Hanoi's reply to his plea for a gesture toward deescalation. The answer was, of course, "No." That clinched it for Washington. Once Kosygin was en route home, Lyndon Johnson gave his commanders the signal to resume the bombing...
...Lucille is said to be anxious to sell her 60% shareholding, worth more than $10 million, and devote full time to being Desilu's star performer. >Humble Oil & Refining, Jersey Standard's domestic subsidiary, will pay more than $30 million for California Standard's 1,500 Signal Oil service stations in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Humble is far and away the leading gasoline seller on the Eastern Seaboard, and the new stations will give it a long-sought boost on the West Coast by doubling its slim 2% share of the market. Humble had previously tried...
...reached $3.2 biilion, part of it for the DC-8-62, which is the world's farthest-flying commercial jet, with a range of 5,750 miles. Thus, even as Douglas' money problems got worse, plenty of bidders beside McDonnell showed up. Among them were Signal Oil & Gas, Fairchild Killer, General Dynamics and North American Aviation...
...firm produces computerized-data storage units, and the new Xerox-marketed Magnafax-a copying machine that transmits and receives facsimiles of documents, memos and letters via standard telephones. Magnavox backlog-virtually all of it in military orders for walkie-talkies, radar units, aircraft and mobile ground communications equipment, satellite signal receivers, and submarine-detecting "Sonobuoys"-stands at $152 million. As if all that were not enough, Magnavox has entered the wooden-furniture business, and it is entering the organ field with an electronic instrument used by Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra...