Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comfort vanished with "the events of June," as Ted refers to his brother Robert's assassination last year. The surviving Kennedy became the immediate target of conflicting pressures-to save the Democratic ticket by running for Vice President, to save his brother's cause by running for President. He ruled out the second spot. Although there was some talk of a draft for the presidential nomination, and although Eugene McCarthy offered Kennedy his delegates during the convention, there was no assurance that Ted could get the nomination, and no certainty in his own mind that he should...
...Student Target. Three years ago, Packard began a series of company commitments to better the lot of underskilled blacks and Mexican-Americans. He started training programs for the hardcore unemployed and used Hewlett-Packard resources to help set up East Palo Alto Electronics, owned and run by blacks. A Stanford trustee since 1954, he has been a target of student protest because of Hewlett-Packard's defense contracts and his seat on the board of General Dynamics. To many dissidents he seemed the personification of the military-industrial complex. Yet during a campus sit-in last...
...especially welcome on the return trip, which turned out to be the least eventful part of the journey. Two more live telecasts were presented from the spacecraft, and more star navigation checks were made, but the last two mid-course corrections were canceled: Apollo 8 was dead on target...
...more than a decade, the American bases have provided an easy target of opportunity for Japanese radicals, who have been agitating for a U.S. pull-out for years. There are 148 U.S. military holdings in the islands, manned by 41,000 Army, Air Force and Navy men. An establishment of such a size has inevitably at times caused frictions with the civilian population. Since the end of the Korean War, Washington has made sizable reductions in the size of the permanent U.S. troop commitment - but the friction continues...
...abuse of fans, they get some of their worst knocks from the coaches. When N.F.L. Films placed a microphone on Atlanta Falcons Coach Norm Van Brocklin during one game, they had to discard much of the dialogue because it consisted of profanities hurled at the officials. His prime target was a man of Polish extraction who had recently anglicized his name. "You Polish son of a bitch," yelled Van Brocklin. "You may have changed your name, but you're still a Polish son of a bitch...