Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories about corrosive marriages and disfiguring age-quiet stories, right on target, that may well outlive their flashier contemporaries...
...missile crisis, Salinger rolled up his sleeves, lit a cigar the size of a shinny stick and plowed into his work with admirable professionalism. Most any time he was good for some congenial argument, a $1,000 night of poker, a pungent wisecrack. Jack Kennedy made him a frequent target for teasing, and Pierre never seemed to mind it: "Plucky Pierre," they called him. When he refused to keep a pledge to hike 50 miles, Pierre explained: "I may be plucky, but I ain't stupid...
...November, a Viet Cong unit armed with mortars had occupied Phumy, evidently emboldened by the confusion that followed the coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem. To intimidate the people, the Reds smashed the marketplace, assassinated two village councilmen and a health worker, used the crucifix of a church for target practice...
...walks. His home in Ossining is satisfactorily old (1790) in its history and comfortably modern in its appointments. Cheever has all the mannerisms of the proud landowner. He fiddles with his rotary mower or chain saw, or flails away with limited competence with an ax. He engages in target practice with his son, Ben, 15, who owns a Daisy air rifle. He worries about his unpruned apple trees, or Dutch disease in the elm where the orioles nest...
...Even the present versions carry electronic sensors under their wings and a heavy load of long-range cameras. In the event of nuclear war, a plane with the All's capabilities could fly high over a hostile land after a missile strike; its crew could note whether selected targets have been hit and destroyed. If any are still surviving, the All could radio for another salvo of Minutemen, which would arrive in 30 minutes. It might even drop an H-bomb itself, but this would not be easy. When an All type speedster gets near enough to a target...