Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost is moon-high. Though $20 billion is the stated price tag, some experts feel it may take as much as $40 billion to put two U.S. astronauts on the moon by 1970, the present target date of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA's budget has already rocketed from $117 million in 1958 to $3.7 billion this year. With the costs mounting inexorably, and with memories of Sputnik I receding, some Americans have come to take a less moonstruck look at NASA and the space race...
...directive in question was issued to protect Mr. Meredith, not to remove him. Its target was the core of rednecked white supremacists at the university who continue to do their best to incite their fellow students to riot. Mr. Meredith's quite justifiable statement does not legitimately fall within the scope of the directive; even if it does, it is hardly cause for expulsion...
...aware of Castro's troublemaking (Mexico, for example, takes mug shots of every Cubana Airlines passenger), many nations are still reluctant to go on record in favor of anything that suggests intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state. Even embattled Venezuela, long Castro's No. 1 target, refused to go along, arguing that a travel ban and other moves to tighten internal security were police state tactics. "My government, " said Venezuela's OAS delegate, "cannot accept fighting Communist subversion with measures that are not in strictest conformity with democratic principles." U.S. citizens in Caracas, subjected...
...case involved a rather innocent variety of gun-running. C. Murray Sawyer clerk of the court, described Miss Polansky and her friends as "gun-crazy kids" who bought machine guns and other weapons for their collections and to use for target practice. They unwittingly ran afoul of Federal law when they took some of the guns across the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border...
...Target, Huxley (5) 10. Final Verdict, St. Johns...