Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Craig's foes have been vocal about a number of his appointments-both Legion and-non-Legion men. A constant target has been Doxie Moore, 43, a Legionnaire and onetime professional basketball player, coach and supervisor of officials for the National Basketball Association, who is now Craig's loyal, hardhitting administrative assistant. Critics have hung a label on Moore: "Double-Dribble Doxie." As if to accommodate them, Doxie at times double-dribbles. A fortnight ago, without consulting Craig, he sent out a flurry of telegrams, over the governor's name, taking the wrong side on the President...
...pistols. The local girls flung themselves at his feet, and after a time, Roger married one of the richest of them and moved to the bigger town of Bernay. There the local shooting club welcomed him with open arms and were only slightly put out when Roger missed the target completely at his first shoot. "I suppose," said one member, "that he didn't want to embarrass us." Soon afterward Roger resigned, to assume the presidency of what he called the International Federation of Professional Marksmen...
Probable next Chinese Communist target: Matsu...
...Brazil concluded an agreement with Hungary to exchange goods worth a total of $20 million, and raised the target for total trade with Czechoslovakia, originally $8,000,000, to $30 million...
...playwrights, could certainly lead to chaos. Indeed, even Teichmann and Kaufman have over-reached themselves in the girdle episode, which, besides being irrelevant, is largely unfunny. But on the whole, Cadillac's material stays admirably cohesive. The authors may be using a shotgun instead of a rifle, but their target is the large one of sustained humor rather than the pin-point of specific ridicule. And the laughs are constant all evening...