Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touchdown. "I knew it was a short kick," Mabry said, "so I yelled 'fair catch' as I was running. When I caught the ball I realized I hadn't put my hand up. I knew I was involved in a legal play and that I was a fair target...
...second term), but the history was laid on thick. Nov. 4 is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), an Italian cardinal and church reformer possessed of a Gaullist profile, an imperious manner, and a bent for catechizing. Moreover, St. Charles, like his namesake, was once the target for an assassination attempt -by a disgruntled monk whose order he had attempted to control. The parallels were obvious; so were the concomitant moves De Gaulle was making in Europe last week...
...Astronauts Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford watched the action on TV as they waited for their own scheduled liftoff, 1 hr. 41 min. later, in Gemini 6, the capsule in which they would make the first attempt at rendezvous and linkup in space. Then, six minutes later, the Agena target vehicle mysteriously disintegrated. The whole mission was scrubbed, and from Houston to the Cape, U.S. spacemen began to search their telemetered data for some sign of what had gone wrong...
...experts can identify the "glitch," the space-age devil that caused the trouble. And if it turns out to be a major design failure in the Agena, the Gemini program is in deep trouble. Five of the next six Gemini missions involve rendezvous and docking exercises with an Agena target...
...When you become a target of the Ku Klux Klan," he told the broadcasters, "you soon learn that if there ever was a devil on the face of this earth, it lives, it breathes, it functions in the cloaked evil of the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan...