Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife moved to the valley, now harvests about 14 tons of potatoes per acre (v. average U.S. yield of eight tons per acre), grows cabbages the size of medicine balls. Another farmer, Wyoming-born Victor Falk, 64, owns 900 acres on the Matanuska River, is raising hogs (1959 target: 700), the first hog yield to be fed on grain stored in the new elevator of the booming ($6,000,000 a year) Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperating Association. Says Falk: "You can make a living here with the line of least resistance. You can trap, hunt and fish; you can raise...
After preliminary work on the two model suites is completed, the rest of the entry will be rehabilitated as quickly as possible. Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Director of Operating Services, set a target deadline of four months...
...Dulles should be congratulated for the firmness of his recent warnings to Peking. Weakening by the Americans would be a disaster. If Mao gets away with seizure of Quemoy, his next target may well be Hong Kong...
...their common problem-how to develop unified plans and services throughout a central city and its independent suburbs-to pray for Metro's success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became an easy target for its natural political foes. Next week Metro's citizens will vote on a charter amendment designed to cripple Metro for good.* Outlook for Metro...
NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by Vladimir Nabokov (214 pp.; Doubleday; $3.50), follows Lolita, the cannon shot heard round the literary world (TIME, Sept. 1), and by comparison crackles sporadically like sniper fire. But since Nabokov is an accomplished literary marksman, these short stories are on target, and several are bull's-eyes. The targets are strikingly varied: a pair of Siamese twins, each of whom must be his brother's keeper; a frustrated lepidopterist; a White Russian general playing triple agent in the Paris of the '205. The unifying theme, if there is one, is that...