Word: targeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advanced and versatile jet. It has also become something less-and more-than either the Air Force or Navy wanted. As originally envisioned, the Air Force version would be capable of ducking under enemy radar and making a 400-mile supersonic dash just above the ground before hitting its target; the Navy model would be light enough to fly off carriers and provide air defense for the fleet. Because both services wanted a jet with sliding wings that would allow it to take off in short spaces, land slowly, sprint at Mach 2.5 or loiter for hours, McNamara...
...talk of escalation, though, the targets were familiar: Hanoi's power plant, 1.1 miles from the city, for example, and the Canal des Rapides Bridge, about five miles away. The only new target on the list last week was the naval base at Port Wallut, about 30 miles south of China...
...color" in a contract antidiscrimination clause. Beyond that, the only consensus in Detroit seems to be that the industry is in for a long, costly strike. The union, snapped U.A.W. Vice President Leonard Woodcock last week, would not hesitate to pick a strike target "if we fail to get a satisfactory offer-and that's a foregone conclusion...
...Pick a Target. Beyond the major demands, there are thousands of trivial, and often ridiculous, issues to be settled. One local, for example, is asking for both free lunches and a share in the company cafeteria's profits. Another now wants magazine racks installed on the John doors...
...Shooting, have published mostly technical articles on the proper care and handling of firearms and the most proficient ways to bring down everything from varmints to Viet Cong. But lately they have been devoting more space and fervor to a campaign against legal control of gun sales. No. 1 target is Senator Thomas Dodd's bill, which would limit the interstate sale of firearms through the mail. Guns & Ammo called the bill's supporters "criminal-coddling do-gooders, borderline psychotics as well as Communists and leftists who want to lead us into the one world wel fare state...