Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the rigors of a combat-type, 10,800-mile, 22-hour plane flight, the missile streaked off on a northern course at close to Mach 2 speed. Then it turned around as directed, headed south, made "dog leg" evasive turns of well over 90°, and landed on target more than 500 miles down the Atlantic firing range...
...Eridani and another star, Tau Ceti, both of them about eleven light years (66 trillion miles) away. Tuned to the 21-centimeter waves (1,420 megacycles) that come from cold hydrogen in interstellar space, the telescope is so set up that it points for a short time at the target star, then at an empty region beside it. The system eliminates background "noise," and the balance of the signal should contain any message that might be coming from one of the star's planets...
...Community, but the French Constitution at present provides that any member desiring independence must leave the Community. De Gaulle is expected to ask for an amendment that will transform the Community into the shape of a loose alliance of free countries along the lines of the British Commonwealth. Likely target date for completion of the constitutional rejiggering and the formal proclamations of independence: next June...
Still looking pale and sickly after major abdominal surgery (TIME, March 28), British Laborite Aneurin Bevan, 62, issued assurances that he has no plans to write his memoirs, then took a spirited swipe at those who so much as read that sort of thing. He singled out a favorite target: Britain's Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Bevan: "I understand that Macmillan reads political biographies. I have never been able to achieve that credulity. My experience of public life has taught me to know that most of them are entirely unreliable. I would rather take my fiction straight...
...arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first time since 1896 that a Russian ruler had visited Paris. It turned out that Khrushchev's target was the same as Czar Nicholas II's-Germany...