Word: targeted
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Swamped. Chief target of farmer anger was still Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who for seven years fought the scandalous farm subsidy program by urging Congress to reduce Government acreage controls and price props. Unhappy result: the U.S. farm program will cost a record $6.6 billion in fiscal...
...moon, he can eventually transport missiles. Missile sites located underground, or planted in craters on the far side of the moon (never seen from earth), would be beyond observation, and thus beyond target spotting, of earth-based attackers. Even if there were a missile exchange between earth and moon forces, lunar missiles would have the advantage of time and accuracy, and of direct guidance systems that are already in existence...
Hours after Mathematical Physicist Charles Critchfield, 49, agreed to take over as boss of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Nov. 16), he became the target for salvo after salvo of editorial and political criticism. Nobody seemed to doubt that he might be a good man to help straighten out the U.S.'s missile mess, but many were worried over how and by whom he would be paid while on the job. Reason: at Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's urging, Critchfield was to be a "WOC," serve "without compensation" from the U.S. and keep...
...denies that Butler is a fast-moving, hard-working chairman (he has had just three days of vacation this year), but his enemies say he works hardest at offending the party's bigwigs with his acidly articulate speeches against the Democratic leaders of Congress, Southern segregationists-any target of opportunity. "There is no question that there's a sit-down on money," says one party wheel horse. "All the other money raisers are cool toward Butler or actually dislike him." In his threatening notice last week, Butler did nothing to appease them. As they well know, some adamantly...
...ANGELES, Nov. 12--Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller today pin-pointed the New Hampshire primary as his likely target date for deciding whether he'll campaign for the Republican presidential nomination...