Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little basement room of the county courthouse in northern Florida was crowded as the Madison County commissioners convened for their routine monthly meeting. Target of all eyes as the session began was Dr. Deborah Coggins, 32, blonde and attractive, who was fired from her job as health officer of three counties for lunching privately with the Negro state midwifery supervisor (TiME, Oct. 8). The commissioners had given no official reason for her dismissal, had paid no heed to protests that ranged upward from her physician husband to Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins. Now she rose quietly in the tense...
...year-old Bobby Kuhel the best times of all were those Sundays when his Dad sent him to fetch the .22-caliber pistol out of his dresser drawer for some target practice at the U.S. Army rifle range. As manager of the Chase Manhattan Bank's servicemen's branch in Heidelberg, German-born John William Kuhel was a welcome guest at the range, and he and Bobby were both crack shots...
...Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand a smoking target pistol. "When that man pointed his gun at Dad's head," said Bobby Kuhel, "I just saw red. I didn't know I fired twice...
...even more spectacular type of loft-bombing is used when there is no good landmark to sight on near the target. In such cases, the pilot sets his LABS apparatus for "over the shoulder" bombing, and pulls up into his climb when he is directly over the target. LABS does not release the bomb until the climbing curve has progressed a little beyond the vertical. When the bomb leaves the airplane, it rises in an almost vertical trajectory. It is not quite vertical, however. To compensate for the horizontal distance that the airplane covered after it passed over the target...
...identification nearly a year ago of the antiproton (TIME, Oct. 31), the work was done with the Berkeley Bevatron, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, and a long train of auxiliary apparatus. The Bevatron's beam of 6.2 billion-volt protons was shot into a beryllium target. Out of the target came a secondary beam of assorted atomic debris. The particles with a negative charge, separated from the rest by the Bevatron's strong magnetic field, were mostly mesons. Among them were a few antiprotons (negative protons) formed when the Bevatron's powerful projectiles smashed...