Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spokesman. The questions about Vice President Nixon have been brewing for a long time. Ever since the 1952 campaign he has been the main target of Democratic campaigners. It was politically logical for Democratic spokesmen to concentrate their fire on Nixon, in view of the fact that a man of Dwight Eisenhower's extraordinary popularity is difficult to attack effectively...
Despite the contentment of its unorganized workers, the company has been a steady target for the politically conscious island labor unions, and these unions have the powerful outside backing of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., whose roving European Ambassador Irving Brown argues: "When we attack totalitarian systems, we can't justify an American company in Cyprus refusing its workers the right to organize." The company now finds itself beset by pickets, by recently raised taxes (from 35% to 42½% of net profits) and by the uncertainty of Cyprus' political future. Says the company's undeterred resident director, Robert...
...sequence, shown last week on NBC, starts (bottom left) as the missile heads skyward, powered by wraparound booster rockets, which begin to fall off (upper left) as the missile reaches top speed. The missile then cuts in its second power supply (top right) and races on to meet the target aircraft...
...That is the thing to remember. Today's pilot is a professional. Like other professionals, he has a set of ethics. What are they? To press on to a target. He's not like a rifleman going over the top. where, if the social stimulus of the other men doesn't push him over, someone will carry him over. No, our pilots go into targets alone. It's a matter of ethics whether they press through the attack. I don't think many would poop out in what you journalists call the moment of truth...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. strategists, the aircraft industry, fat with Government contracts, seemed the perfect target in the fight for a new round of wage increases (TIME, Feb. 2). They figured that the big planemakers, with the biggest backlogs in their history on the books, could easily pass along the extra wage cost. Last week the target was hit. In the first big strike of the year 12,000 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out of the Republic Aviation plant at Farmingdale, N.Y., and three smaller branches (including a guided missile plant). The company has $500 million in Government...