Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force planners were distressed that only $70 million was earmarked for two prototype models of the 2,000-m.p.h. B70 long-range bomber, which airmen envisage as being able to fly anywhere in the world within five hours and to lay as many as 100 small A-bombs on target. A couple of Air Force consolations: the budget gives the go-ahead on increased construction of KC-135 jet tankers, authorizes the purchase of 220 more F-105s for tactical nuclear missions. The Air Force schedules of Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 budget would surely come in for the most...
...being developed and is, as they say, in the portfolio of our scientists and designers, is a fantastic weapon." (U.S. Atomic Physicist Ralph E. Lapp guessed that the Russians might be planning an H-bomb to orbit the earth indefinitely, ready on signal to plunge down on any terrestrial target...
...guidance system, made by North American Aviation, Inc. (it recently got a $115 million contract), will be shipped in from California. Boeing Airplane Co. will put together the three stages and install the guidance system in the completed missile at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden. By 1963, the target date for Minuteman to reach full operational status, this area of dry hills and crags in northern Utah may be the most important missile center...
...Final target of Trieste and her crew is the Marianas Trench, which runs east...
...battle between the Premier and the press goes back to 1954, when Menderes was the target of a heavy fire from Turkish journalists critical of his administration. Enraged, the Premier ordered the Grand National Assembly to pass stringent new laws to control newsmen. Since then, nearly 900 have been found guilty -some of them two and three times-and sentenced to terms ranging up to three years. The list of arrests grows weekly: last week, besides collaring Balcioglu, police stood silently by at Istanbul's airport when Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalists and editor-publisher...