Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patrolled the route. President Johnson, if he attends at all, will avoid this danger, zipping in and out by helicopter. As an added precaution, a dummy portico, modeled after the entrance to the White House, was erected in front of the amphitheatre's main door to block the aim of any rifleman. Even the airspace up to an altitude of 2,500 ft. above the convention site was banned to all traffic ex cept official planes and helicopters...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...
...year, provided that it can hold down the tooling-up costs. The only automaker without a domestic minimodel in the works is Chrysler, which instead has decided to consider development of what it calls a "world car," a low-cost auto that would probably be manufactured in France and aim at acceptance in both the U.S. and European markets...
...Russians say that they are anxious to join the rate-setting conferences that they once condemned as "capitalist cartels." "I see no reason why we should not operate like other shipping men," says George Maslov, London-based boss of Russia's Anglo-Soviet Shipping Co. "We do not aim to dominate world shipping, but if opportunities do arise to make some money on the side with our fleet, we certainly won't pass them...
...common expiration date for all Campbell contracts. Behind the demand is the burgeoning drive by A.F.L.C.I.O. Organizer Stephen Harris, to duplicate company-wide contracts that he won from the Union Carbide Corp. and the copper industry. His "traveling committee," representing the firm's unions, made its overriding aim to negotiate contracts for all Campbell plants at the same time. Meat Cutters Union Local President Clarence Clark claims that the old system enables the company to "play one union against another." By contrast, management views the current strike as a harbinger of a united labor force that would be able...