Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Initially, Humphrey thought Richard Nixon would be an easy target. The Chicago debacle changed his mind. In retrospect, Humphrey believes that he might have made more headway with Eugene McCarthy's dissidents if he had spoken out sooner on Viet Nam. Even before the convention, he had a speech ready saying that he might try a bombing halt if elected. But he was persuaded to wait until the end of September by advice from Paris that an earlier announcement might have hampered the peace talks. Humphrey, unlike many supporters and pollsters, does not believe that a few more days...
...Persian Gulf is an important neighborhood in today's world. Britain is planning to complete its withdrawal from the island of Bahrain and the Tru-cial States along the Gulf in 1971, and so the frail but oil-rich little sheikdoms provide a tempting target. Supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seek to dominate the desert land; the Russians at present need no oil, but would like to deny the oil to the West. Soviet ships now ply the Indian Ocean, and early this year nosed into the Persian Gulf on courtesy visits. With such forces...
...close campaign also indicated a readiness to withhold judgment. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, a loyal Wallace man, sent congratulations to "my President." So did George Meany, while Walter Reuther, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Whitney Young Jr. expressed good wishes. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a special target for Nixon during the campaign, said there should now be "no recriminations...
...only Catholic bishop to be worried by this restlessness and turmoil. A dramatic illustration of the hierarchy's concern-and of some of the reasons for it-took place last week in Washington. At their regular semiannual conference, the 235 Catholic bishops of the U.S. found themselves the target of a bizarre series of demonstrations by dissident priests and laymen. On the day before the bishops met, 3,500 laymen rallied at the Mayflower hotel in support of 41 local priests who had been disciplined by Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle for criticizing Humanae Vitae. The keynote speaker...
...time Apollo approaches within 30,000 miles of its lunar target, its speed will have tapered off to 2,100 m.p.h. Then, as the moon's gravity begins to exert a stronger and stronger tug, Apollo will accelerate once more. To slow the spaceship down and place it in lunar orbit, Apollo's big engine will fire a strong braking blast. Following two circuits of the moon, the engine will be used again to move Apollo's orbit to 70 miles above the cratered lunar landscape, which the astronauts will survey and photograph. Eight revolutions later...