Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weeks ago, the Republican National Committee pinpointed the St. Louis mayoralty race as a prime target in a G.O.P. drive to win the big U.S. cities back from the Democrats. To achieve this aim in St. Louis, the Republicans needed a strong candidate if they expected to beat two-term Democratic Mayor Raymond R. Tucker. But if the G.O.P. had the right idea, it picked the wrong man: last week Tucker swamped Republican Auto Dealer Ben H. Lindenbusch by a near 2-1 vote...
Relations between Brown students and police were strained two weeks ago when policemen, called to a nearby restaurant about midnight, were the target of jeers and some beer cans tossed by students. Students said that police used foul language and needless roughness in investigating the trouble...
Cape Canaveral's current firing schedule calls for launching a man into space on the target date of April 28. The seven Mercury astronauts, who until recently had visited the Cape only for launchings and special briefings, are now permanently billeted at Cocoa Beach's Holiday...
...Target Mohole. This effort is part of Project Mohole, which will cost more than $20 million. It is backed by the National Science Foundation, and its goal is to drill clear through the earth's crust to the "Moho,"* the boundary between the comparatively light rocks of the crust and the much denser mantle, which extends downward for i ,800 miles and whose properties are largely unknown. Geophysicists are sure that even one hole drilled to the Moho will tell invaluable volumes about the history, structure, content and behavior of the earth...
...gain over February for March as a whole-though March's total would still be 13% below March of 1960. Production of trucks and autos increased 17.8% last week, and Detroit predicted another gain for this week, which would keep the auto industry abreast of its production target for March...