Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pencils to make sure they were not bombs. Men for whom the government had long since put out arrest warrants showed up under special safe-conduct, and there were some curious confrontations. The eagle-beaked boss of Baalbek's rebels strode up to Foreign Minister Charles Malik, target of the most savage opposition attacks, and with a big smile, shook hands. In trooped other rebels, all wanted by the cops, to be greeted with handshakes, wisecracks and even embraces by some of their erstwhile bitter enemies. Of the 66 members, only ten were missing...
Only trouble is that Indian-hating Uncle Wilse (Wendell Corey) will not let the boy be. Snarling like a Ferrari in low gear, Uncle Wilse calls the boy an "Indian savage," uses his bearskin as a rifle target, finally shoots in hot blood an Indian who was on his way to visit the boy. Disgusted with the white man's ways, MacArthur returns to the tepee and joins his mates on the warpath. But at the last minute, will his white corpuscles subdue his red? As sure as arrows whiz and bullets zing...
...from a Brokerage. The occasion was the institute's 23rd annual art exhibit, which since 1953, when prize totals topped $5,000 has become a national affair that gives artists a summer-season target worth shooting at. On the walls were 50 paintings from past prizewinners and another 250 winnowed out from the 1,701 entries submitted; they divided about evenly between abstract and realistic...
...rocket-powered antisubmarine torpedo that will home on its target electronically. Aerojet is responsible for developing the entire system, including guidance...
...exercise almost total control over U.S. air space, bring both military and civilian craft under strict ground control. To operate the airways, the Civil Aeronautics Administration is spending $1 billion to replace the current hodgepodge control with a semiautomatic, radar-based system. The trouble with the plan is its target date: 1963. With a lead-time of 18 months or more for complex radars, CAA is still waiting for 70% of the control equipment ordered since 1956. To be really safe, say CAA men, 85% of the 100,000 U.S. planes now flying would have to be ordered...