Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four "liberators"' was present for the ceremony: the other three triggermen all died in the aftermath at the hands of Trujillo's troops. The survivor, Council Member Antonio Imbert, 41, hid for six months in a friend's shuttered room, is still a presumed target for Trujillo revenge. Tommy gun-toting guards protect his home round-the-clock; he wears a .45 Colt at all times and keeps an M-1 rifle within easy reach...
Future spacecraft designed to cruise to the moon or Mars will have even more complicated control systems, on-course propulsion that can be turned on and off, and telescopes to track the earth, the sun and the target. If they intend to rendezvous with other spacecraft, they will probably carry radars for judging distances and intricate devices to bring the two ships together. But when their assured, experienced captains guide them into the velvet blackness, they will be using manuals based on the flights-and the mistakes-of such early pioneers as Glenn and Carpenter...
...spot ballistic missiles plunging down from space. A high-altitude nuclear explosion, the AEC explains, acts like an enormous, radar-blinding smoke screen. Radar beams that search the sky for invading warheads may be either absorbed or totally reflected by bomb-ionized air. An enemy hoping to hit a target defended by radar-guided anti-missile missiles might well explode a warhead several hundred miles up to create an electronic smoke screen that would blind defensive radars to other warheads racing toward their targets...
...could hear some loud sighs, people letting their breath out, and a 'thank God' or two." "Roger"-And Out. But the damage was done. By firing the retros too late at too shallow an angle, Carpenter had foredoomed his capsule to land far out of the target area. There was another danger: Carpenter's manual fuel tank was empty, and his automatic tank was only 15% full. He might not be able to hold the capsule steady in its plunge back down through the earth's atmosphere. If the capsule tumbled, Scott Carpenter would perish...
...mind when he wrote the book? Everything in it-and particularly the wiry elegance of the poem itself -denies the possibility that it is merely aimless entertainment. And although parts of the book are wickedly satirical of pompous emigres and academic wooden-heads, there seems to be no main target for the satire...