Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main target of SNCC's work in Mississippi has been a statute permitting voting registrars to ask applicants to interpret any part of the state constitution. Under the law registrars can ask Negroes to answer virtually impossible questions, and thus prevent their registration on supposedly legal grounds...
President Kennedy's target date for a moon flight coincides with an unusually intense period of solar flares or bursts of radiation, he pointed out, which would prove fatal to any space traveler. Twenty-five pounds of shielding per square foot could protect a voyager against the Van Allen radiation belts, he said, but adequate protection from flares would not be feasible because of the greater weight required...
...signal ever comes, each Minuteman will blast out of its silo and, carrying a hydrogen warhead with over 50 times the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb, set out for a target up to 6,300 miles away. That prospect should make any potential aggressor think twice before launching an attack against...
...long way to go, and the Defense Department is withholding $125 million appropriated for Nike Zeus production until the Army solves some major problems. For one, its radar so far cannot distinguish between a real warhead and a decoy. For another, while it is efficient on a single target, the Zeus cannot make a choice when a "package," or barrage of missiles appears. Finally, last week's Nike Hercules target missile was tracking at only 3,000 m.p.h. In a test scheduled for the Pacific next summer, the Nike Zeus will attempt to down an Atlas missile hurtling...
...Katanga gunners'main target was the U.N. headquarters. One afternoon, two Belgian whites in civilian clothes, carrying the tube, tripod and shells of a mortar, walked down a street in the center of town, set up their weapon in a used-car lot; then, casually, they began bombarding the U.N. office building five blocks away. The fire of little, informal squads like this one was remarkably accurate-they were getting instructions from the roof of the tallest building in town, the new hospital, which the U.N. later captured...