Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days (his smile was as big at 11 p.m. as it was at 6 a.m.), the Senator from Ohio held press conferences before breakfast, met coveys of politicians, students, businessmen and farmers, ate fried chicken at box suppers, and all the while held a steady bead on his main target: the Truman Administration...
Senator John J. Williams, the Delaware Republican who touched off the scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, fired another salvo last week. His target was Joseph D. Nunan Jr., Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1944 until he resigned in 1947, with a warm letter of thanks from Harry Truman, to become a Manhattan tax attorney. Many of the officials whom the tax scandals have forced out of office were his close associates, but Nunan himself had appeared only on the edges of the investigations. Senator Williams now fitted him into a gallery of old familiar faces...
Darby Day. Mrs. Allen's was Head No. 3, but hers was not the last. The next target was ex-Schoolteacher Olin E. Darby, who had also been profiting from school contracts. As chairman of the board's purchasing and distribution committee, he was able to swing a $68,000 school contract to the Jack & Jill Ice Cream Co., which occupied a store he happened to own. And as a reward for his efforts, he was thus able to charge Jack & Jill an exorbitant rent. Last week a superior court jury convicted Darby of a felony for having...
Young Lieut. Patton, a dead-shot rifleman, banged away at the twisting target. He was outraged when the judges told him that he had scored one clean miss. Why just the day before, in a practice round, he had set an unofficial record of 98 out of 100. But Patton might well have been jittery about an upcoming ordeal. During the next four days, against the world's best athletes, he would have to 1) swim 300 meters, 2) fence from sunup to sundown, 3) ride a strange mount over 25 jumps on a rugged 5,000-meter course...
...puts them through their paces. Using .22 caliber pistols-because they are easy to shoot and ammunition is cheap-the squad practices pumping bull's-eyes into a man-sized silhouette at 25 meters. The problem: learning to hit the mark in the three-second interval that the target faces the shooter...