Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strain of criticism from the press, whose columnists and White House reporters he has courted and cajoled but never really won. Last week the buzz rose by several decibels in the wake of an extravagantly adulatory speech by one of his own aides (see following story) that became the target of jeering Washington comment, including a slashing Herblock cartoon...
...Redeye antiaircraft missile should give the infantryman his own weapon against strafing planes. It can be fired from the shoulder, is capable of finding its target by sensing the heat of the airplane's engine...
...rocket with twice the wallop of a .45, is inexpensive to produce (as low as 850 each) and simple to operate. Loaded with six 13-mm. rounds, each an inch and a half long, the gun ignites the rocket's solid fuel to fire the projectile toward the target...
Fold It? The target was the liberal afternoon New York Post (circ. 337,556). Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 62, who has been increasingly concerned over the paper's financial condition, installed a punch-tape IBM computer that can automatically prepare edited copy at the rate of better than 2,000 lines an hour-theoretically ten times faster than a journeyman Linotypist. After experimenting with it on a dry-run basis, Mrs. Schiff last week ordered the machine into operation. The union balked, and Bertram Powers, single-minded president of the International Typographical Union Local No. 6, laid down...
...detect the existence of the anti-deuteron, Dr. Leon M. Lederman and his group worked with a device called a mass spectrometer at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. Using Brookhaven's 33 billion electron volt synchrotron, they bombarded a target of beryllium with a beam of high-energy protons. This resulted in a debris of. particles that sped through the 300-ft. magnetic field of the spectrometer, where they could be sorted and analyzed. When 16 giant, 20-ton magnets were set to pass positively charged particles, the apparatus made careful readings of the flight path, momentum...