Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satellites, reared back and thrust his deep-pile chops at Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...
...didn't realize," said a U.S. tourist in Turkey last week as he gaped at the devastation on all sides, "that Istanbul was so badly bombed during the war." A guide promptly reassured him that Turkey's largest and most famed city had never been a target for enemy bombers.* But what the explosives of wartime combatants had done in malice for the clutter of London and Berlin, the peaceful but restless ambition of Premier Adnan Menderes was doing for Istanbul...
...conserve fuel. Nuclear ships can cruise around the earth at top speed, and reach their home ports with their nuclear bunkers still undrained. This is an enormous tactical advantage. A nuclear task force can stay at sea for months, always maintaining a speed that makes it a difficult target...
HOWARD HUGHES is also target of trustbusters. Justice Department charged that his Hughes Tool Co. divided world markets to prevent import into U.S. of German-made oil and gas well-drilling equipment that would compete with him. Suit says that since 1950 Hughes has illegally pooled patents and consulted on prices with West Germany's Alfred Wirth...
...years of high school, Eble joined Con Ed in 1916 as a "corridor boy," sandwiching in two years of correspondence courses from the Alexander Hamilton Institute between chores. Shifted to the accounting department, Eble was an assistant comptroller in 1935, became a vice president four years ago. An important target as president: financing a $650 million expansion program to add 1,000,000 kw. to Con Ed's 3,700,000-kw. generating capacity by 1960 to keep pace with New York City's growing power demands...