Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with nameless anxieties? No problem. Simply "go into a room by yourself; put on your favorite music, throw off your clothes; and dance."* So advises Laura Archera Huxley, wife of Writer-Philosopher Aldous, in her just-published collection of "Recipes for Living and Loving," entitled You Are Not the Target, and selling for $4.95. Mrs. Huxley's husband writes in his introduction to the book that "these recipes work." Readers less emotionally involved with the author may find her formulas to be, at best, ridiculous, and, at worst, risky. But lively reading nonetheless...
...Target is put together somewhat like a child's primer; printed in various type faces (recipes themselves are italicized, POINTS OF SPECIAL URGENCY set in bold capital letters), it affords the reader generous blank spaces where he is encouraged to scrawl his own reactions, such as, "I wish I had my money back...
This was man's first radar contact with the distant planet. It is a tough target to hit, for it is only 3,010 miles in diameter, not very much bigger than the moon, and its orbit keeps it close to the troublesome sun. When Goldstone's radar waves set out for Mercury, they had an effective strength of 25 billion watts. By the time they straggled back, they mustered only five ten-thousandths of a billionth of a billionth of a watt. They had lost the even regularity of oscillation with which they had started...
...irregularities contained new knowledge about the target planet. JPL's radar contact measured the distance of Mercury with an error less than 100 miles-an accuracy that is not possible in optical astronomy. It also timed Mercury's slow rotation, which has the same speed as its 88-day orbit around the sun. Most of the results agreed with predictions. But there was one surprising variation: the surface of Mercury proved to be unexpectedly rough. "We're not talking about vast mountains and valleys," says JPL Radio Astronomer Richard Goldstein. "We're talking about something...
...Henri IV, and Pretender to the throne of France. L'Express pointed to the warm personal friendship between the count and De Gaulle, recalled that le grand Charles's earliest political sympathies were monarchist, and noted that the Count's Gaullist leanings had made him a target of a bombing by Secret Army terrorists. L'Express concluded: "This vision is one which haunts De Gaulle's meditations, and it would reconcile two heretofore an tagonistic principles-monarchy and republic-in a single legitimacy, that of royal descent and universal suffrage...