Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phantom jets snapped off the U.S.S. Ranger's dipping flight deck. Next into the crystalline sky burst four flights of A-4 Skyhawks. Then the mission, 45 planes strong, streaked low across the Gulf of Tonkin toward the craggy, familiar coastline of North Viet Nam-and a target never before attacked by American pilots...
...North Viet Nam does not produce or even refine, depending wholly on imports, mostly from Russia. In recent months, these imports have soared by 60%, and Hanoi has begun dispersing and burying its vulnerable storage tanks, as clearly shown by reconnaissance pictures. Given the "perishable nature" of such a target, the Secretary added crisply, "it became much more desirable to attack it now than it had been earlier...
Chicago's recent riots in the city's Puerto Rican section resulted in eight persons shot and dozens more injured by rocks and flying glass. No one was more riled than Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko. But as usual, Mike's anger had an unexpected target. Mayor Richard Daley, he wrote, was quite right when he blamed the trouble on "outside influences." One of those out side influences, continued Royko, "was Mayor Daley. He manages to attend many wakes in his part of town. But when the Puerto Ricans invited him to a banquet last week...
Even the engineering mind has begun to boggle at the profusion of space-speak-which explains the reduction of some complex nominal compounds to straightforward acronyms. "Augmented target docking adapter" has become ATDA, "astronaut maneuvering unit" is known as AMU, and the "electronic ground automatic destruct sequencer" -used to blow up missiles that have gone astray-is known simply as EGADS...
...time to lose if it wants to capture the majority of the 800-plane world market for supersonic transports. The Anglo-French Concorde is moving on schedule toward a target of commercial service by 1971, and Russia's TU-144 may beat the Concorde by several months. The later-starting American SST will offer several advantages over the European models. It will be one-third larger, carry nearly twice as many passengers and, thanks to its heat-resistant titanium skin, fly faster. The Concorde is limited to 1,450 m.p.h. by its aluminum body, but it will be cheaper...