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Word: targeting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comparing their bird with Minuteman and Polaris, claim its critics, they are on shaky ground. Skybolt is more elusive than a land missile only when it is airborne. But the cost of keeping a B-52 fleet aloft is immense -and a SAC base is a much softer target than a hardened silo. A nuclear submarine may move slowly, but it can be deployed within striking range of its targets for months without refueling and at low cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Scrap over Skybolt | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Jordan quivers with every political quake from Egypt to Iran. If Nasser gains a foothold in Yemen. Hussein fears his next target will be Saudi Arabia's oil, and if the Saudis go, "I go too." Within his own borders is an enormous potential fifth column - the 600,000 Palestinian refugees on U.N. relief rolls, dispossessed during the Israeli-Arab war and enthralled by Nasser's unfulfilled promises to return them home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan: Fugitive from Bullets | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...within a mile of any target up to 6,300 miles away (Moscow is 5,100 miles, Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Minutemen & the Gap | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...these toys fail to please, nationwide big sellers also include Douglas Army A-24 Attack Bomber, 155M Long Tom Field Cannon, Cape Canaveral Play Set, 5' long Basooka Rocket Gun, Electronic Rifle Range with Motorized Moving Target, Sonar Subhunt with a radar screen so you can "search out and destroy your enemy," and Astroscope, that "Sends Up Satellites" (only for children over...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Big Bruiser, King Zor, Santa Claus Usher in Christmas | 12/13/1962 | See Source »

...other way-fuels with unfamiliar names that are now only whispered because of stringent Air Force secrecy. The big trick is to control accurately the speed of the ions. If they move too slowly, they do not react; if they move too fast, they break up the target molecules and form unwanted products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Ion Synthesis Makes Better Rocket Fuels | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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