Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admitting he could not hit the 1960 target date, G.A.F. Chief Josef Kammhuber, 60, a wartime night-fighter pilot, predicted, with a confident look into the wild blue yonder: "They will certainly be ready by 1962." That depended, however, on the war-thinned younger generation, about whom a former Luftwaffe ace complains: "When we were young, we were speed-crazy. Now the boys tell me, 'Jets are too fast. We don't want one foot in the grave.' " Old Luftwaffe pilots, now in their late 30s or early 40s, prove slower to train than their opposite...
...raid was no ordinary police crackdown, but a carefully planned piece of political strategy. The man behind it: War Minister Henrique Teixeira Lott, who staged 1955's famed "preventive coup" to ensure constitutional government, but who lately has been showing increasing annoyance at parliamentary foibles. The main target of General Lett's ire is the opposition National Democratic Union (U.D.N.), of which Tenorio is a prominent member. The U.D.N. deputies have taken advantage of congressional immunity to insult high army brass in speeches; allied with other blocs in Congress, they have also sabotaged President Juscelino Kubitschek...
...gets away, does not give a big margin of safety in the case of high-yield bombs. But if the pod is engineered as an air-to-ground missile with rocket propulsion of its own, it can be launched while the Hustler is many miles away from the target. While it is still curving through the air, the Hustler will streak for home, safe from enemy close-in defenses and from the gigantic fireball that will spring up from the ground behind...
...Chemist John Milsted, who wangled some time on the Stockholm cyclotron, the only one in operation capable of projecting a sufficiently intense beam of carbon ions. Milsted also undertook the tricky job of making curium into a thin film, and sandwiching it between aluminum foil to form a suitable target. The apparatus was arranged so that any atoms of element 102 formed would be knocked out of the target and would stick to a "catcher foil," a bit of plastic film...
...have done credit to a team of Japanese jugglers. After the curium had been bombarded for about 20 minutes, the Swedes shut down the cyclotron. As the concrete shield opened, a group of scientists, wearing gloves and dust masks against radioactivity, dashed into the cyclotron chamber. One snatched the target from the machine, another took it apart and passed it to a third, who extracted the catcher foil. The fastest runner, generally Swedish Chemist Lennart Holm, then dashed 100 yards to a waiting elevator...