Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after another last week, a flock of Cape Canaveral's biggest birds climbed above their own flaming tails and soared toward space. Both by their failures and by their successes they carried U.S. spacemen closer to their most urgent target: the far-off moon...
...little sense of mortality." With help from on high, a cathedral under construction in Britain got a finishing touch. At Coventry Cathedral, a twin-rotor helicopter picked up a two-ton, Soft, spire, flew the length of the church's copper-covered concrete roof, hovered dead on target while builders bolted the spire into place. Supplier of the helicopter: the Royal Air Force, whose outnumbered pilots had to watch helplessly one night 22 years ago when 500 Luftwaffe bombers hit Coventry in the war's worst raid on Britain and reduced the 600-year-old cathedral...
With over 100 people still to be heard from, the Admissions office has already received 1160 acceptances for a class whose target size was 1185. It's size may now be forced up to 1200 students or more...
...leadership of Phillips Brooks House, the University opened most of its facilities to the kids. With their leaders, they laid siege to the Peabody Museum, the Fogg, the CRIMSON, the IAB pool, Lowell Lecture Hall for cartoons and Rob Roy, Weld Boat House for half-hour boat rides, "Skish-Target" shooting on the banks of the Charles, Widener, athletics at Soldiers Field, and food...
Guiding Stars. Instruments both on the bomber and the missiles will watch the stars before launch (even in daylight) and jointly keep track of the plane's position above the surface of the earth. When a target has been selected, the bomber's crew will crank the proper instructions into the computers carried by the four Skybolts. At the press of a button, the birds will be on the wing, heading in salvo for a single target or spreading out on individual courses to clobber widely separated cities...