Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...platform for a radar tower and a mass of sensitive electronic gear. Unlike similar outposts built by the British in World War II, the unarmed Air Force stations will seek only to locate, rather than destroy, enemy aircraft; they will also guide friendly fighters to the target, furnish weather information to ships and shore. For the 30-odd technicians assigned to each island, living will be cramped and bleak indeed; the Air Force plans to rotate its seagoing units every 30 days...
...island has been built (the planned total is an Air Force secret), no exact location announced. But survey ships are already at sea, taking samples of the ocean bottom to determine the firmest anchorages for the new stations. By next spring, construction will be under way. Air Force target date for completion of the entire chain: 1957. Total estimated cost (excluding radar equipment): $15 to $20 million...
...Burgundy. In the rear cockpit, a Russian parachutist carefully checked his equipment. When he spotted a white chalk cross on the ground below, he stepped off into space. For 20 seconds he fell free. Then his nylon chute blossomed overhead and he began to drift downwind, past his target. Tugging skillfully at his suspension lines, he spilled air from his chute and slipped back toward the cross. He touched down only four yards short of the mark...
Communist China, a "monster with feet of clay," would be an easy target in Rhee's military estimate. "It is hated by the masses. Although the Reds have murdered 15 million of their opponents, thousands of Free Chinese guerrillas are still fighting in the interior of China . . . Red China's army numbers 2,500,000, but its loyalty is not reliable, as was proved when 14,369 members of the Communist Chinese army captured in Korea chose to go to Formosa, and only 220 chose to return to Red China. The return of the Chinese main land would...
Actually. Cohn's forced resignation was a victory for Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, who had demanded dismissals on both sides of the Army-McCarthy row. So far. Potter has failed to hit his Army target. Counselor John G. Adams. ("If we fired John G.," a top Pentagon official said, "it would look like a deal with McCarthy, and the people are tired of McCarthy deals.") But on the subcommittee Potter's vote, plus those of the three Democrats, made up a 4-3 majority that could give Cohn his walking papers...