Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some were protesting the anachronistic rule of aristocrats: clubbies and jocks. Surely at Harvard these groups are not very powerful, less powerful probably than at any other school in the country. But still, their most entrenched stronghold, the Class Marshalships, offered itself up as a target for even vaguely resentful intellectuais, bohemians, radicals, proletarians...
Before long, "suppressive fire" became something else. Not waiting to be shot at, U.S. jets began blasting Red targets-mainly along Route 7, the principal convoy link from Communist North Viet Nam to the Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs...
...government's new National Housing Bank, designed to combat the country's equally critical housing shortage, got its first project under way guaranteeing private loans to builders for 30,000 middle-income homes in Rio alone this year. The bank's target: 18 million houses and apartment units in the next 20 years...
...Trick: Go Slow. Some school systems have caught on to the problem and worked out ways to overcome it. A Detroit official says the trick is to go slow: "We began five years ago with only twelve schools and a handful of teachers, and have no target date for all our 225 elementary schools." Now 78 of Detroit's schools teach new math in Grades 4, 5 and 6. Of the 3,500 teachers in the system, 700 have attended new-math seminars and courses on Saturdays, encouraged by $15-a-day payments. Aggravating the shortage of new-math...
...Year award for his "Blossom Plan" for peaceful integration (a little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since...