Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Messrs. Teichmann and Kaufman have not confined their wit to one vein or aimed it at one specific target. Early in the evening, for example, they cast out a few promising barbs at the monopolistic tendencies of "free enterprise," but they choose not to linger here, and immediately move on to the subject of Senate investigations, and then to the foibles of the press, and from there to the proxy system of stock-voting. Meanwhile, they have thrown in such diverse gimmicks as a recorded narration, fairly-tale style, by Fred Allen; a slapstick routine of an executive doing...
...Civil Defense plans call for complete evacuation of all people within six miles of Central Square, the theoretical center of destruction for the Greater Boston area. Local industry, the primary target, is considered the 11th most important enemy objective in the country by the Civil Defense Agency...
...event of war, the University would probably be a secondary target in an area of total destruction and would have to be evacuated immediately, Edmund H. Burke, Cambridge Civil Defense director said at a City Hall meeting last night...
...East End of London. A workingman's family in the East End exists on a fraction of the amount spent by a comparable group in the United States; and in this area living conditions as still austere as well as crowded. The people are therefore a favorite target for demagoguery of the hate-America type; and the East Ender's memory of the bitz is not overlooked by politicians with a neutralist plank, inveighing against the United States as a warmonger. The Winant Volunteers, assisting in the leadership of clubs, taking groups of children to camp on the Channel Islands...
...course, Cambridge is important to the United States," officials said, "but we felt we would again more by admitting the Russians to educational communities than by excluding them." City Manager John J. Curry had expresses amazement that the State Department would admit Russians to a "number one target like Cambridge...