Word: totalled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American servicemen stationed abroad, more than half (538,500) are in Viet Nam. Last week President Nixon ordered 14,900 back home from other overseas bases, or 1.5% of the total. Apart from Viet Nam, these are the heaviest troop concentrations...
...bill before the Senate was S.2546, "authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 1970 for military procurement, research and development." The total amount involved was more than $20 billion, but only a fraction of that sum was at issue right now: $759.1 million for the first steps in deployment of the Nixon Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile defense system. After months of inconclusive hearings and angry debate, and publication of a spate of weighty books on ABM by civilian defense scholars,* the Senate settled in for its toughest fight over a military bill in memory...
...Department decided to close down the Portsmouth Naval Base, an important employer in his constituency. But the key man, one of the few Senators un committed as debate began, was Vermont's venerable George Aiken, 76, dean of Senate Republicans and a man singularly invulnerable to pressure. (The total cost of Aiken's 1968 primary campaign was $17.09 for postage; he was unopposed in the November election.) Said one anti-ABM strategist: "If we don't get Aiken...
...struggle into their bulky space suits, visored helmets, boots and gloves. With their Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpacks, which supply air conditioning and enough oxygen for four hours, each will be encased in 183 lbs. of equipment. But under weak lunar gravity (one-sixth the earth's), the total weight of each fully burdened astronaut will be only about...
...present state of almost total ignorance, the only prediction that can be safely made about the other eight planets and their 30-odd moons is that there is not a single one upon which unprotected men can live. Most of these places are almost unimaginably alien; but that very fact will give them immense scientific value. Moreover, in a very short time-historically speaking-we may be forced to exploit resources beyond the earth. This may become necessary or desirable even if, as seems probable, great progress is made in the production of synthetics and in exploiting the resources...