Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farewell lecture as Cambridge University's Reader of English, the grand panjandrum of British criticism, stiletto-tongued Frank Raymond Leavis, 66, set off the biggest explosion to rock Britain's literary Establishment in a decade. Leavis' target: Author-Bureaucrat Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, whose, eight-volume novel cycle, Strangers and Brothers, has won him transatlantic renown as a perceptive interpreter of the new scientific culture of the 20th century. Dismissing their author as "portentously ignorant," irascible Humanist Leavis suggested that Snow's books "are composed for him by an electronic brain called Charlie, into which...
...precise evaluation of the results can be made. The fourth patient, a two-year-old girl, died; but her death was due to a recurrent tumor outside the irradiated zone. However, the accuracy of the Cyclotron does reduce the danger of damaging healthy cells and organs outside the target area...
That ended the scoring, but the fun was just beginning. Gene Kinasewich, an enduring target for stray elbows and sticks all season long, wasn't having any Saturday evening, thank you. He barged around aggressively early in the contest checking one Colby man through the boards, but his (and everyone's) big moment came at 16:39 of the final period...
...Proof-test" weapons already in the U.S. atomic arsenal-something the Pentagon is particularly anxious to do. The series will include the first full tests of the Minuteman and Polaris missile warheads, and operational tests for ASROC (antisubmarine rocket), an ingenious, nuclear-tipped weapon that seeks out its target under water...
Defending the value of urban fallout shelters, Kistiakowsky pointed out that not all cities would necessarily be destroyed in an attack. "People living in or near prime target areas have higher probability of being killed, but provision of shelters reduces somewhat this probability," he maintained...