Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a booby-trapped car exploded. killing 62 Moslem dockers gathered for the morning shape-up and wounding another no, including many youngsters brought along on the theory that the S.A.O. would spare Moslems accompanied by children. European dockers had been tipped off beforehand and had kept out of sight. But enraged Moslems scrambling from the scene grabbed the first Frenchman they saw driving by, a hapless Sahara oil worker on leave, and cut his throat...
...virtually controlled until last week. Commandeering Oran's five tallest buildings, French army machine-gunners gained the upper hand in the city's rooftop war. In Algiers. French patrols backed by armored cars and helicopters tirelessly stalked the downtown area with orders to shoot terrorists on sight. The army has been heavily reinforced: in Oran alone there are now 12,000 French troops, and last week the first units of the local military force, a 40,000-man legion of French-trained Moslem conscripts, started patrolling Oran and Algiers. In his maiden speech before France's National...
When the Kennedy Administration closes its books for fiscal 1962 two months from now, the recession-ridden federal budget is certain to wind up somewhere on the order of $7 billion in the red. And there is scant relief in sight. Though the President a few months ago talked hopefully of showing a surplus for fiscal 1963 (see chart), most economists last week agreed that a budget deficit of from $2 billion to $5 billion is likely next year...
...sight of students in the caps, ribbons and bandages of dueling fraternities sends a shiver up the spines of many Germans: the custom identifies so readily with Wehrwillen-the will to war. "These fools must be stopped," snaps one of the protesting professors. A less angry and even more telling criticism came recently from a Ghanaian student who discussed dueling on television. Pointing to his own tribal-scarred face, the Ghanaian remarked: "This isn't done in Africa any more, and frankly I can't understand why you still do it to each other in civilized Germany...
...tumbling. Then, just after the fins separated and went astern, the first of the two-stage missile's solid-fuel engines ignited, spouting a rooster tail of naming gas. Quickly Skybolt accelerated, spurted far ahead of the B-52, turned its nose upward and climbed sharply out of sight. By the time its dummy warhead splashed in the ocean far downrange, it was clear that Skybolt, which has been under forced-draft development by Douglas Aircraft Co. for nearly three years, was well along the difficult road toward deployment with the Strategic Air Command...