Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using the code name "Henry," Morgan played such a convincing game, according to Castro, that Trujillo gave him $78,750 in Miami to buy arms, sent three boatloads of weapons. When the conspirators set a target date for an uprising in Havana, Castro called a halt. The top 40 plotters were summoned to Morgan's home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most...
...obedient satellite world of Eastern Europe, the press was quick to crow, "A Personal Victory for Nikita Khrushchev," and it became indelicate to attack the classic enemy, "American ruling circles." The "Paris-Bonn Axis" became the new target, and Communists sought to isolate West Germany's Konrad Adenauer as the only warmonger left. Only in Communist China was there a delayed reaction, and then a restrained and dutiful approval of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting (a similar lack of enthusiasm came from Formosa...
...biggest Japanese automaker, Toyota Motor Co. (fiscal 1959 sales: $159 million), whose Toyopet was once the tinny target of G.I. gibes ("If you strip off the door lining, you can read the beer-can labels"), streamlined Toyopet to resemble in performance and size a compact U.S. car (14⅓ ft. long v. Rambler's 14½ ft.). The four-door, six-passenger Toyopet has a 65-h.p. motor, does more than 30 miles on a gallon of gas, sells for $2,239 at port of entry...
...first radars of World War II could detect invading aircraft (giving the R.A.F. a big advantage in the Battle of Britain), but they were not much good on smaller targets. Modern radar is vastly more sophisticated, and a wondrous new refinement is an eye developed by the Army Signal Corps in collaboration with Hazeltine Corp. It can stare through darkness or fog at a terrain of tangled scrub and tell if a man is crawling through it two miles away; it can look at a walking human six miles away and tell whether its target is male or female...
...give President Walter O'Malley (TIME cover, April 28, 1958) the last major parcel of 18.4 acres he needs in Chavez Ravine for his prospective $12 million ballpark. In San Francisco, the Giants' play has speeded up construction of the 45,000-seat Candlestick Park. Target date: Oct. 2, just in time for the World Series...