Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bomber and that a unanimous J.C.S. request for $23 million to pursue research on such a bomber had been cut in half by McNamara himself. "I see no clear need for a new strategic bomber," insisted McNamara, who reasons that the lumbering aircraft would not arrive over a target until long after enemy missiles had destroyed U.S. cities...
Police Pigeon. No one is more anxious for the court to make up its mind than Danny Escobedo, a prime target of Chicago cops ever since the state dropped its case against him in 1964 for lack of any other evidence except his invalid confession. In prison, Danny wrote poetry, learned plumbing, discovered psychology. He walked out with a high school diploma, dreams of a good job, and hopes of suing the police for denial of his civil rights. Hardly anything has worked...
...flat tire while driving his family home after visiting Grace's relatives. As he got out to fix it, another car drew up and hovered nearby. When he opened the door to get back into his car, automatically turning on the inside lights, Mits became an easy target and was shot dead. Danny, who had lived with Mits and "loved him like a brother," was immediately pulled in for questioning by the police...
Fleming's next prime target of opportunity was a letter to the editor of the Washington Evening Star in which Columnist Andrew Tully said: "Lately Moyers seems to be spending most of his time, when he is not running the war in Viet Nam or solving inflation, telling Washington reporters how stupid and even corrupt they are." Retorted Fleming: "Bill Moyers made two speeches about reporting, because he shares my belief that if the press does not produce enough criticism of itself, it will not maintain the important position it has. If Tully is as good a reporter...
Mother Night was first published as a 350 paperback in 1962. Its appearance now in hardcover, reversing the usual procedure, can be regarded as an amusement tax chargeable to the author's growing reputation as a satirist. Vonnegut's targets are institutional: religion (Cat's Cradle), science and technology (Player Piano), philanthropy (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine). Here the target appears to be patriotism. From Nazi Germany, Howard W. Campbell Jr. broadcasts Hitler's propaganda to the West. Even his wife does not know that he is a U.S. counter-intelligence agent...