Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does have a wonderful target. The intellectuals of his title are a specific group; they are the habitudes of "cocktail parties of New York, Boston, and the choicer Eastern universities." Not all of them, of course, but the ones who huddle today under the banner of academic freedom although in 1940 they strove to lynch any professor who said a favorable word about fascism. Not all of them, of course, but those who signed petitions drawn up by people they didn't know, in favor of causes that they hadn't even heard of, but who today shrug off anti...
...trouble was that many reducers reached their target weight only to put the pounds back on again, because emotional problems leading to overeating had not been solved. So, in Chicago, many were trying to unscramble their egos. Some were members of Take Off Pounds Sensibly, or TOPS (TIME, Feb. 9), and met for mutual mental aid as part of their reducing programs. For others, the Y.W.C.A. had three chapters meeting regularly with a psychiatrist...
...Bomb Target . . . U.S.A. (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). A documentary on U.S. preparations for handling atomic disaster. Narrator: Arthur Godfrey...
...same sort of automatic control, but some antiaircraft experts believe that bombers flying eight miles up cannot be shot down dependably by any sort of gun. The shells take a long time to reach such heights. They may be deflected from their courses by unknown winds, or the target may turn...
What projectiles need for these long voyages is steerability and an opportunity to change their minds at the last moment. That means guided missiles "vectored" toward the targets by electronic signals, and equipped with homing devices that sense the target ahead and turn the projectile toward it in a collision course at several times the speed of sound. The domain of these mechanical falcons is the high, thin air above the sweep of the Skysweeper...