Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no defense against this firestorm, "a conflagration so huge that it must be reckoned a metereological event." Piel has the shelter advocates on two counts: not only does a firestorm-producing blast render defence of the metropolitan area impossible (the central city being the target); but if the bomb is detonated at that height, fall-out is minimized. Piel thus presents the vision of people being suffocated and cremated in backyard shelters, protecting themselves against fall-out that will never rain...
Although Leverett House, Winthrop House, and the Yard exceeded their goals by 16, 11, and seven per cent respectively, response in five other Houses hovered around 80 per cent of expected totals. Dudley House netted only 15 per cent of its projected target...
Next Wednesday has been set as a tentative target date for a fuller committee report. However, Washburn doubts that the investigators will be able to release "information that has been given fidential." He promised the committee's to us in confidence and must remain con-"vigilance" to any possible misconduct...
...forceful-and liberal-brush of the Washington Post's editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block is ever at the ready to assault Herblock's favorite target: the conservative. Artistic discipline generally keeps his passionate partiality within decent bounds (although he once showed former Vice President Richard M. Nixon crawling out of a sewer). But last week, as he sighted in on conservative U.S. Senator (and heir to Phoenix's Goldwaters department store) Barry M. Goldwater, nothing held Herblock back. He got off one of the lowest blows in his editorial-cartooning career...
...Soviet Union's stranglehold on world sky-diving records slipped slightly when a four-man U.S. team, bailing out near Chandler, Ariz., broke Soviet marks for day and night group-precision jumping. In daylight, the U.S. parachutists landed an average of 13 ft. 7 in. from a target point on the ground; their nighttime average...