Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the President's aim, there is ample evidence that Americans remain uneasy over Viet Nam. A Michigan poll showed that, while 62% approved Johnson's overall handling of the presidency, 62% also disapproved of his conduct of the war; in Virginia, 53% liked the way he was doing his job, while 53% disliked the way he was doing it in Viet Nam. Yet another poll -one the White House does not discuss -indicates that the voters may want a different man for the task. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register reported that while the President led Michigan...
...Base with Alvin White, 47, North American Aviation's chief B70 test pilot, at the controls. After 2 hr. 15 min. of routine tests, the B70 readied for a less serious assignment, a formation flight with four other jet craft whose engines were made by General Electric Corp. Aim of the maneuver: color photographs for G.E., a Madison Avenue routine that routinely wins Pentagon approval...
...either way, their aim was to transform American education. They frequently referred to themselves as "manufacturers." They would first design their product, the new curriculum; test it in a laboratory; then adapt it for a trial assembly line -- the co-operating school system -- and finally, they hoped, for many assembly lines...
...Cambridge will not allow itself to be run by the disciples of Karl Marx." one councillor declared, referring to the "deep-seated and far-reaching conspiracy which has as its aim the capturing of the very government of the city itself." Although Harvard did not deign to counter this charge, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the resolution turned out to have been only a publicly stunt designed by one of the councillors to pigeonhole other legislation before the Council...
...conduct seminars for clergymen, advising them on how to receive and greet the new decision makers. An innovation for Graham crusades will be the use of closedcircuit television to broadcast the crusade to cities as far away as Glasgow and Edinburgh. All these techniques are designed to take dead aim on Britain's low rate (10%) of church attendance, on the huffy refusal of the average English cleric to proselytize, and on the acknowledged need of Graham's men to conserve the results of decisions for Christ better than they have in the past...