Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Neil McElroy took his seat in the target chair before the House Armed Services Committee. Studying him with trained marksmen's eyes sat the 37-man committee, headed by Georgia's Democrat Carl Vinson. Congress' No. 1 anti-reorganization man. Purpose of the hearing: to fire a few range and windage rounds at McElroy and the Administration's defense reorganization plan...
...hydrogen weapons flying toward Russia whenever an unexplained "blip" appears on U.S. radar screens, proved a dismal flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which prevents any U.S. plane from actually proceeding to a Russian target without personal orders from the President-Russia found no supporting votes for its accusation in the eleven-nation Security Council. Arkady Sobolev was compelled to withdraw his resolution, a display of ineptness rare in recent Soviet diplomacy. ¶By putting too much overt pressure on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito...
...hoyden Tuesday night romps on NBC-TV's Jack Paar Show, doughty Prattler Elsa Maxwell. 74. has merrily trampled and spiked the foibles, veneers and peculiarities of such vulnerable folk as Elvis Presley, Billionaire J. Paul Getty. Jayne Mansfield, "Fatso" Farouk, Linda Christian and many another moving target. But not until one evening a fortnight ago did the gaily irresponsible Elsa turn her gusty gall on one of the few name-and-I-droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when Host Jack...
...scores of Emergency War Plans-E.W.P.s-designed to meet every calculated contingency to be put into immediate operation. SAC flashes its orders-"PLAN BLANK"-to any or all of some 70 SAC bases worldwide. At the bases the alert crews scramble and head off with a roar toward target-via a Fail Safe point that varies with every mission...
...Pleading ill health, boxing's Mr. Big, James D. Norris, resigned his longtime job as president of the International Boxing Club. But he hung on to his job as president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...