Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more by the end of this year, and the promise was soon outstripped by the deed. The 50,000 were on the scene by mid-September-and they just kept coming. Today the total is 145,000, and it will pass 200,000 by New Year's Day. Target by next summer...
...five-minute call, the next on 15-minute call, then a group on 30-minute call, finally a wave on an hour's notice. On the average, within 17 minutes of a platoon leader's radioed call for help, the jets can be over the target with almost any combination of weapons he might need: .50-cal. machine-gun bullets, cannon shells, Bull-Pup missiles, Zuni rockets, napalm, 260-lb. to 3,000-lb. bombs. At the newest of the fields, Chu Lai, leveled and surfaced with aluminum matting by the Seabees in less than 30 days last...
Phillips Brooks House will administer the educational aspects of the War on Poverty in three Cambridge "target areas," if the city's recent request for funds under the Economic Opportunity Act is approved. PBH, whose projects are usually financed by private foundations, has only once before managed a federal project...
...last night foresaw possible difficulty in recruiting more tutors but said some volunteers now tutoring in Boston might help man the new Cambridge projects. "PBH is anxious to cooperate with the CEOC," Miss Gillam explained, "but we may simply not have enough volunteers to manage all three 'target areas.' PBH certainly won't abandon any of its present programs to work in Cambridgeport and Jefferson Park...
...operations of the Roosevelt Towers program may be significantly affected also. Presently, the program, is student-run, but the CEOC proposal provides for a full-time adult coordinator in each of the six target areas...