Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems that were regarded a few years ago as Buck Rogerish dreams. A guided missile is no mere pilotless bomber shepherded by a nearby mother plane. According to M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl T. Compton, new chairman of the Research and Development Board, a missile must fly near its target unaccompanied and have some sort of "seeing eye" to recognize the target and steer toward it. Admittedly, this is a large order...
After hissing impatiently behind the scenes for 17 months, the Air Force's hottest jet bomber-the experimental Boeing XB-47 Stratojet-whipped into public view last week like a kerosene-burning skeet target. It left Moses Lake, Wash., with a whoosh of its six jet engines, skyrocketed 2,289 miles to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (where it rolled down the runway with a fuchsia-colored parachute blossoming from its tail, to slow it down) in three hours and 46 minutes...
...Didn't It?" Taft's first target was Secretary of Labor Tobin, lean, broad-shouldered Boston politician and onetime Massachusetts governor, whose frame and fitness gives him the look of a retired first-baseman. Tobin had been sent up to Capitol Hill to defend the Administration's slightly blurred substitute for the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, Feb. 7). One of its foggiest points was whether the President would have the right to an injunction to stop strikes which imperiled the national welfare-a right clearly stated in the Taft-Hartley Act. Attorney General Tom Clark sent along...
...father, a stolid and self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used sheets, the nightshirts carefully laid out, can exasperate me to the point of nausea...
...These are true guided missiles," said the Air Force, "which can be launched in one direction, then changed in their flight to hit another target." The steering is done by the four fins in the rocket's tail. The Air Force did not explain how the fins are controlled from the ground, and admitted that the degree of control is "not great...