Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian soil was the subject that originally triggered the election. Asked about Bomarcs while testifying before the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee last Feb. 13, McNamara made a general defense of the weapons, no matter where they were based*: "At the very least they would cause the Soviets to target missiles against them and thereby increase their missile requirements, or draw missiles onto these Bomarc targets that would otherwise be available for other targets...
...bullet whizzed by, and then as he flattened himself, an other. Out from the brush, rifle in hand, came a woman. "I thought he was an Egyptian," she said. Among the galabiya-wearing Yemeni, only Egyptians are known to wear pants, and "your trousered correspondent" became an obvious target. De Carvalho emerged after 23 days in Yemen with a vivid story (TIME, March 8), establishing that the battle for Yemen was not going as Cairo said it was. Last week De Carvalho was in Jordan, reporting for our Nasser cover, and at the palace was greeted with a grin...
...ship's fire control supervisor presses his own "fire" button. A five-ton steel hatch opens on deck, and a burst of compressed air ejects a 15-ton, 30-ft. Polaris A-2 missile. Skyward from beneath the sea's surface, the missile hurtles toward its target...
...carried a coarse-vision television camera to act as a finder and pick up guide-stars. As the telescope's 18-ft. tube swung around the heavens, a fine-vision TV camera told operators on the ground what it was seeing. When the telescope was finally locked on target, it kept pointing properly despite the motion of the balloon and the turning of the earth...
...Target for the night was Mars, riding ever higher in the sky as the night advanced. After a little guidance trouble, the soaring scope found the planet and focused its concentrated reddish light into a spectrometer that measured infra-red rays, recorded the readings on magnetic tape and transmitted them simultaneously to the ground. After a 12-hr., 700-mile flight, the balloon and telescope landed gently in Tennessee...