Word: pushbuttons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What was this new thing the U.S. was in? World War III? Could Armageddon begin with so feeble a fanfare as the muffled Battle of Korea? Could the pushbutton war of the physicists start among the grass roofs of a land where men had hardly caught up with Galileo? Was this the place and was this the way in which Marx and Jefferson came to final grips...
...Pushbutton War. Talk of "revolutionary new weapons" sound uneasily like the old pushbutton warfare pipe dream once charged to the Air Force. It also was likely to give rise to some of the old Maginot Line thinking, of the superiority of the defense, and the delusion of security at cut rates. But the fact was that while the Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient...
...shallow dome, will have tiers of balconies, press boxes and television booths. Built to hold 850 delegates, 900 spectators and 350 reporters, it will supply everyone present with a fixed receiver for listening to translations of what goes on. Delegates' desks will have mikes as well, and a pushbutton voting system. If all goes well, U.N. delegates will be settling into their new desks by the spring...
...Rolls-Royce town car. Most eye-catching entries were Daimler's linden green five-passenger convertible ($13,025) and a six-passenger black sedan ($7,150) which has collapsible tables for the rear-seat passengers, a cosmetic shelf behind the rear side-window, and a dashboard pushbutton to draw shades across the rear window. Runners-up were the Javelin Jupiter ($2,548) of Jowett Cars, Ltd., a dashing convertible that would do 95 m.p.h., and the rakish Jaguar two-seater convertible ($3,945) with a maximum speed of 130 m.p.h...