Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, the Dean of the Faculty picks the target size for each incoming class. Several months ago President Pusey, as acting Dean, set the target figure for next year's freshmen at 1185, which was 15 lower than the previous year's figure. He mentioned at the time of his decision that the decrease was "a concession to the Masters." Since then, however, an abnormally high rate of acceptances has increased the size of the class to 1220. McCloskey's committee was created in November of 1960, during a meeting in which the Faculty rescinded a 27-year old recommendation...
Enrollment in the Radcliffe Class of 1966, whose target size was 300, rose to 324 with the final flurry of acceptances last week. As a result, all the girls on the waiting list have been released...
Nine F-10s Thunderchiefs swooped low, dropped 750-lb. bombs that disintegrated a target supply depot. A dozen F-100 Super Sabres scorched the earth with napalm. A Falcon rocket burst from an F106 Delta Dart, sent a drone aircraft to the ground in blazing bits. As a Tactical Air Command flight of F-105s sped overhead, a simulated nuclear bomb was exploded in a miniature fireball and nonradioactive mushroom cloud. As the waves of noise, heat and blast rolled across Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, Commander in Chief John Kennedy grinned from a rocking chair...
...President watched eight 6-52 crews run to their planes and get into the air in 7 min. 34 sec. After Kennedy sounded a Klaxon, five Voodoo crews were airborne in 2 min. 24 sec. The President saw F-104s hit target rockets with Sidewinder missiles, laughed as an ancient C-47, all souped up with JATO rockets, shot into the sky like a jet. He inspected a line of 33 different aircraft, from the X-15 to the B-52, ducked inside a security hangar for a look at supersecret weapons...
...original target size for the class was 1185--a figure which was supposed to include about 50 students from the waiting list...