Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Richard Kiley stars as a doctor who is the target of a $100,000 malpractice suit. Fred Astaire is host and narrator...
Paris observers were setting the target date for a peace treaty between France and the F.L.N. in terms of days, instead of weeks or months. Reportedly, the French government was ready with stacks of freshly printed posters announcing the ceasefire. One poster showed a Moslem F.L.N. soldier and a French army conscript shaking hands under the legend: "Peace in Algeria...
...Which last week was redder than usual after its Moscow correspondent reported a rumor that Khrushchev had been the target of an assassination attempt. After a Kremlin spokesman denounced the story as a "provocative lie," L'Unità tried to pin the rumor on Western newsmen. Khrushchev, meanwhile, was relaxing at his Black Sea villa near Sochi and joked with a visiting Brazilian diplomat about the reported attempt on his life...
There was no chance that Ranger could hit the moon, but it could curve its course closer to its target. Happily, its C.C. & S. could listen as well as command. Half a day after launch, when Ranger III was nearly 100,000 miles away from the earth, scientists from Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where Ranger had been built, began sending new orders that C.C. & S. acknowledged and "memorized." After the command to "execute" went out, Ranger III started a complicated series of maneuvers. Its little gas jets turned it to a new attitude. Then its large midcourse rocket...
...week's end, Ranger III had swept far past the moon, missing its moving target by 22,862 miles. Now it is in orbit around the sun. J.P.L. scientists have two more Rangers nearly built-and they can now be sure that a good launch is all that stands between them and the moon...