Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King Is Ill. To a seething Belgian Parliament, Premier Van Houtte presented a doctor's certificate. "The King," he pleaded, "is seriously ill." But the opposition's No. 1 target was not His Majesty, but the unpopular "Shrimp Queen." "Madame de Réthy, we are sure," snapped the Socialist Le Peuple, "was primarily responsible for this detestable incident. She is exercising a palace influence to which she has no right." Furthermore, said Le Peuple, her opennecked blouses and slacks are "provocative" and her behavior "indiscreet and boisterous. The government must regulate her status...
...down from the edge of space at close to the speed of sound. It stares intently for a second or so; then with a roar of gears and motors, the gun springs to life. While its carriage whirls and its tube swings upward, the radar still stares at the target. It acts uncannily like a hunter who squats in his blind and watches the sky for ducks. When he glimpses one over his shoulder, he springs to his feet and trains his gun. The Skysweeper sees better than any human hunter, and it swings its ten-ton mass as nimbly...
...Answers. Designed by the Sperry Gyroscope Co., the Skysweeper is the highest point so far in the development of radar-controlled guns. When the radar is locked to a target, an electronic computer figures out the target's distance, speed, direction and course. It knows all the answers and can swing the gun so that any shell fired from it will intercept the course of the target in midair. The actual firing can be done either automatically-at the rate of 45 rounds a minute-or by one of the crew. The shells have proximity fuses that explode them...
...either be silenced or will switch their frequencies to 640 and 1240 on the dial of any standard receiver. This technical jugglery is necessary in order to prevent enemy pilots from getting a "fix" on a normal radio beam and riding down its path to drop bombs on a target city...
...Voice was formerly scapegoat of a blind penchant for economy, it is now target for the indiscriminate applicators of Americanism. Presumably, Congressional investigations suggest legislation, but the only concrete proposal to issue from McCarthy's committee is that all works by "subversives" or "sympathetic to the Communist cause's should not be considered as Voice material...