Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving in as weaponry for the new Navy is a growing family of guided missiles: Terrier, Talos and Tartar, Regulus, Petrel, Sparrow and Sidewinder. With a big stock of conventional big-gun ammunition on hand, the Navy is making no more (except for target rounds). The missile cruisers Boston and Canberra are in service with their radar-controlled antiaircraft Terriers. The ancient battleship Mississippi, converted three years ago to a missile carrier, is a busy floating laboratory for missile development. Two conventional submarines. Tunny and Barbero, have been converted to missiles, and two more conversions are authorized. The Navy...
Moscow knows that Curt LeMay can drop SAC's bombs on target and on schedule; Washington knows that he can drop his hard, soldierly opinions the same...
...emphasis on quality has been successful. Because the administration has been careful, however, to prevent overextending the educational facilities offered, Brandeis has been the frequent target of criticism on a quantitative basis. Its only graduate school is a small (150) one in arts and sciences, and critics clamor for a medical school--as a haven for Jewish medical students denied access elsewhere because of apparent quota limitations...
...press conference that centered on bombs, missiles and peripatetic Russians, but found time for a political question more personal than the one on Dick Nixon. When I.N.S. Columnist Ruth Montgomery asked with mock-solemn mien what he thought about Democratic election-year strategy to make him the prime campaign target, Ike shrugged and laughed. "Well, I think it is perfectly correct," he said. "I am the head of the Administration, and I have been shot at before...
Earlier, the victimized proctor had been inundated with rolling trash barrels, nailed into the bathroom, locked out of his room, doused with whiskey, and extinguished by Pyrene's best. His charges also boast five broken doors, 300 beer cans dropped on target from a four-story elevation, and several spontaneous combustions...