Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEAD START. Launched with a modest budget of $17 million and a target of 100,000 needy preschool children, the venture has proved the poverty program's best success. The response was nearly six times greater than anticipated, with 560,000 pupils in 2,400 communities attending classes for two months last summer. On the average, the children added eight to ten points to their IQs and 14 months to their intellectual performances. Not least of Head Start's achievements has been to nip budding health problems by giving its children complete medical exams-their first in most...
...unpredictable Johnsonian personality. The President has developed a kind of immunity to criticism; though he scarcely enjoys it, it rankles less than it used to and he has come to recognize adverse comment as a natural affliction of his office. Harry Truman, he notes, was a constant target of the critics, yet is now remembered for his wise decisions rather than for the deep freezers accepted by Military Aide Harry Vaughan...
...Tempting Target. Thus did Nasser, in a breast-beating May Day speech, serve notice last week that the 45-month-old battle for Yemen was entering a crucial new phase. The Egyptian-Saudi truce signed last August is clearly dead. Nasser refuses to pull out of Yemen, as promised. And the Saudis refuse to stop pouring in aid, as promised. Saudi arms and supplies are flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over...
...tightening his hold on the parts of Yemen that really count: the Red Sea coastline; a northern boundary that takes in the well-fortified town of Hajja and the capital, Sana; and the border with the South Arabian Federation, which becomes independent in 1968 and offers a tempting target for further Nasser expansion toward Aden...
...power to produce the snooper's stream of neutrons comes from a simple gasoline engine that runs a primitive type of particle accelerator. A beam of deuterium (or heavy hydrogen) particles emitted by the generator is directed against deuterium absorbed in a titanium target. As the deuterium particles collide, they release neutrons that are channeled into a beam that can cover a two-square-foot area of ground. The entire device, including the recording instruments, is small and light enough to be carried in the back of a Jeep. It has already been given trials in the field...