Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promised Pools. Daley, a usually adept if routine machine politician, has consistently fumbled his dealings with the Negro population that makes up nearly one-third of his constituency. He is also resentful because King has made Chicago his primary base and target in the North. The day before the riots started, the two men conferred about housing, job opportunities, police brutality and other issues. They got nowhere. Daley later charged that workers on King's staff were in large measure responsible for the violence. (Subsequently he withdrew the accusation.) At week's end the mayor belatedly announced that...
...made an inviting target for State Senator William B. Spong Jr., 45, who had opposed conservative Byrd policies in the legislature for years, and now appealed for a "fresh, positive approach." Spong got a plurality of 764 out of a total vote...
...times, and has acquired about 20 billion electron volts (BEV) of energy by the time it reaches the far end of the copper tube. There, the extremely powerful stream of charged particles passes through a beam "switchyard," where giant electromagnets direct it into one or another of two target buildings, or split it between both...
Inside the buildings, the electron beam is fired at targets such as metallic sheets or containers of liquid hydrogen. As a high-energy electron approaches the nucleus of an atom in the target, one of two things happens: it veers off in a different direction, or it actually shatters the nucleus-and the reaction often produces new and different particles that exist for only billionths of a second...
Modesty Blaise, based loosely on the adventures of a British comic-strip heroine, presumably intends to poke fun at the James Bond school of chic, sexy savagery. The damage done to the chosen target is negligible, but this parroty parody adds up to a near disaster. Assuming a knowing superiority over its prototypes, Modesty is less a spoof than a limp-wristed kind of fairy tale, witlessly cluttered up with homosexual malice, artsy gift-shop decor, and the same old gaggy gadgetry on which the Bondsmen have patents pending...