Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situations, perhaps, mere aid or propaganda functions turned into full-fledged political operations-as in the violent general strike that helped bring down the government of pro-Marxist Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana three years ago. It was financed by the CIA-backed Public Services International, whose ostensible aim was to organize government workers into independent unions around the world...
...least, such is the aim of Hôtesses Internationales, an elite assortment of young ladies who were organized two years ago by two aristocratic demoiselles - Countess Marthe de la Rochefoucauld, 28, and Mademoiselle Claude de Clermont-Tonnerre, 24. Says Marthe: "The idea came to me when I was in New York and heard Americans complain about the difficulties - and the coldness - they found in France." She recruited her cousin Claude and a dozen other sang-bleu friends to provide chic and cheery guidance for foreigners in Paris...
...more years. But the ships together have been losing more than $3,000,000 a year, and, as Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman of the Cunard group, put it at the London press conference, "We cannot allow our affections or our sense of history to divert us from our aim of making Cunard again a thriving company...
...open season on NBC's Tonight show continued, but Johnny Carson was not perceptibly pinked. ABC had already taken a pot shot with Joey Bishop (TIME, April 28). And last week, a new ad hoc hookup, the United Network, took aim with a cap pistol called the Las Vegas Show...
...pack rockets, anti-tank missiles, a grenade launcher and belly-mounted automatic cannon. Even its looks can kill: if the gunner, using a computer and enemy-seeking infra-red sight, has his hands full with one target, the pilot, who wears a special sight-equipped helmet, can automatically take aim at another merely by glancing...