Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miller. Washington's Governor-elect Daniel J. Evans, a 39-year-old engineer who upset two-term Democrat Albert Resellini, urged the party to "reconstruct our framework in terms that will encompass a variety of opinion." Former Vice President Richard Nixon, who had reinstituted himself as the favorite target of some cartoonists by attacks on his fellow moderate Nelson Rockefeller, now called for a centrist leadership that would make enough room for both liberals and conservatives-but not for "the 'nut' left or the 'nut' right." In case anybody was wondering who might qualify...
...Tempting Target. For months, row after row of U.S. aircraft-helicopters, fighter-bombers, long-range U-2 reconnaissance planes-have stood wing to wing at the important Bienhoa airport, a dozen miles northeast of Saigon...
...favorite target for Hall and Dunda is John Parry, simply the best offensive end in the league. Parry has led the Ivies in receiving the past two years and holds the all-time league record for receptions in one game, nine against the Crimson two years...
...threat de Gaulle sees in the MLF is not the sole explanation for his current displeasure with England. The awkwardness of the British position on MLF provides him with a convenient target for retaliation for other things. The new Wilson government has informed Paris that it would like to "revise" schedules for building the superconic airline Concorde and the tunnel under the Channel. The British wish to delay these projects because their cost would upset their austerity program. But de Gaulle is upset by Britain's new reluctance because he hoped the Concorde would cut significantly into American domination...
...Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, 79, World War II commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, took a Colt .45 automatic in hand to fire off an "honorary" clip of five at 25 yds. Rooty-toot-toot, he scored three bull's-eyes, two near-misses, promptly tucked the target under his arm to take home, "because my wife wouldn't believe it if I just told her." Why should she? Though he had a pistol range outside his Honolulu office for recreation during the war, he hasn't laid a finger on a gun for the past...