Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Subversive Act is nominally directed against all Communists, Fascists and others seeking the over-throw of democratic government by force or violence, primary target of Georgia security officers are apparently teachers who are at state and state-aid institutions of learning and whose politics are at the far left. To date "practically every employee" of Georgia's University System has filled out a modified questionnaire, according to Harmon W. Caldwell, Chancellor of the System. He adds that approximately 20 persons who have not signed are either absent from the State on leave or are ill. "Two faculty members...
...favorite camp story: when on cleanup detail, Private Gray carefully inspected each cigarette butt to determine how Camels were doing). Within seven years after his first camp cleanup detail, he was appointed Secretary of the Army by President Harry S. Truman. An intellectual, liberal Democrat, Gray is a poor target for critics who contend that there was an anti-intellectual basis for the decision that Oppenheimer is a security risk. His brief description of his job as chairman of the AEC board: "The most difficult assignment I ever...
Assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, Cheshire worked on the problems of dropping the first atom bomb. He watched the bombing of Nagasaki from an observation plane ("I remember thinking that it was dropped a little off target, but of course that didn't matter...
...Bull's-Eye. A new, low-recoil, semi-automatic shotgun that stays on target at rapid fire without riding up was put on sale by New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Secret of the shotgun's accuracy is a recoil chamber that moves less than one-tenth of an inch, thereby softening the kick up to 30%. Price...
...vice president and general manager of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the time he was 31. Today he is still a partner of the Collins-Powell Co., an aircraft-parts sales organization he founded in 1931; president of the Radioplane Co., which he founded in 1938 and which now makes target drones as a Northrop subsidiary; and chairman of the Holga Metal Products Co. (steel filing cabinets) of Van Nuys, Calif. A Northrop director since 1952, when Radioplane merged with the company, Collins replaces the late Major General Oliver P. Echols, USAF...