Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nanoseconds (billionths of a second), the computers will take that information and in turn feed it to the missile sites, where a smaller radar called MSR (for missile site radar) will take over and-unless overruled by monitoring officers-fire the actual anti-missile missiles and keep them on target as they try to intercept...
Once lauded as an able, effective administrator, Willis has lately found himself the target of civil rights groups, who charge that he has pursued a go-slow policy in integrating the city's 550 public schools and has gerrymandered school districts in order to promote de facto segregation. For a while it appeared that the eleven-member Chicago school board would not renew Willis' contract, which expires in August. But then, at a recent meeting, the board voted to give him another four-year contract-with the firm understanding that Willis would retire in October 1966, when...
Past the Point. The effect of Wagner's withdrawal upon the candidacy of Republican Lindsay was open to conjecture. No longer would Lindsay have tired Bob Wagner to use as a whipping boy and his administration as a target. Still, New York City Democrats, who outnumber Republicans by more than 3 to 1, have grown accustomed to Wagner, and most of them undoubtedly would have voted for him again. Richard Nixon, just at a guess, figured that Wagner's decision increased Lindsay's chances...
...flying hours, taught himself to fly the Skyraider in a mere three days. He flew behind Ky in the first raid on North Viet Nam last February, returned with six holes in his plane. "I never look at the ground fire," he says. "If you do, you lose the target. And, to be truthful, I do not like to think about ground fire...
Nobody was more relieved to be free of the planners than No. 9's manage, Y. S. Taraskin, who in 1964 had been buffeted by no fewer than 30 changes in target figures, 17 revisions of cost estimates, and 13 switches in his budget allotments as decreed by central planners. Taraskin is a happier man today, for Izvestia announced a spectacular first-quarter for No. 9 under Libermanism. Daily coal production soared to 2,041 tons, a 33% increase over the expected 1,520 tons. Earnings rose, wage costs were reduced even as workers got bigger bonuses...