Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somoza is fond of all sorts of artillery, but especially so these days, since he recently announced (for the umpteenth time) that he is the target of an assassination plot engineered by his old neighbor and enemy, Costa Rica's peppery President José Figueres...
Just twelve hours later some 1,000 Israeli troops, their faces blackened against the bright moonlight, bounced south by truck past the El Auja crossroads. Their target was an Egyptian outpost that was set on the lower slopes of an Egyptian hill but inside the demilitarized Israeli territory. A network of trenches, gun emplacements and barbed-wire barricades linked the forward post with stronger Egyptian positions around the hilltop...
...three-and-a-half years later, when President Truman was considering the projected U.S. invasion of Japan, MacArthur's advice was requested. He noted, among other favorable factors: "The hazard and loss will be greatly lessened if an attack is launched from Siberia sufficiently ahead of our target date to commit the enemy to major combat...
...Berkeley scientists turned their 6.2 Bev. proton beam on a copper target. From it emerged a secondary beam of sub-atomic debris (protons, neutrons, mesons, etc.) which presumably contained antiprotons. To prove that it did, the scientists shot the secondary beam into a "maze" (of magnetic fields and mass-or speed-measuring instruments) which only a particle with the anti-proton's properties could pass through. A few of the particles did pass through it, leaping every hurdle and checking in triumphantly at the far end. None lived very long, of course. After a fraction of a second, each...
...auto industry continued its biceps-flexing last week. Chevrolet's General Manager T. F. Keating announced a 1956 production target of 2,500,000 cars and trucks (against an estimated 2,300,000 this year). Figures on the industry's output for the week seemed to support his optimism: 158,877 cars and trucks off assembly lines, against 126,166 the week before and 59,302 a year earlier...