Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What I Had Been Taught." Only a few weeks ago, Risner almost got killed. But his professionalism saved him. He now describes the experience with almost clinical detachment: "The target that day was a radar station in North Viet Nam. I was janking [changing altitude and direction continuously] when I got hit by ground fire. They got me four feet behind the cockpit, in the engine. I had to make a 180° turn to get out over the sea. When I got to the coastline, I figured I was safe. But in the water was an enemy gunboat...
...counterpart radioed for Vietnamese-flown Skyraiders, Rogers called in American-flown helicopters. "Then," recalls Rogers, "I asked the commander which he wanted to carry out the strike. He said both, and I had to explain that you couldn't have Skyraiders and choppers going in over the target at the same time. It was a real Mickey Mouse [the linguistic equivalent of World War II's snafu], but we got it all straightened out, and the choppers went in first...
...every major phase of the Polaris program -the missile, the sub, the navigational and fire-control systems, training of the crew, securing of overseas bases, establishment of communications relays. Result: the first Polaris missile was successfully test-fired from a submerged sub in July 1960 instead of the scheduled target date...
This new student-faculty cooperation is often directed at a target outside the college. City College professors agreed last month to excuse from classes students who were picketing Governor Rockefeller's office to protest his impending vector of CCNY's free tuition bill. At Ohio the professors are organizing a lobby to protest the state legislature's plans for reapportionment. The University of Wisconsin has its Committee to Restore People to Politics, organized by students and faculty to spread information about Vietnam...
...unnatural angle-at first, 15° backward and 20° to the left. They made a long incision from below his ear around past the windpipe. At last, U.C.'s Dr. Roland K. Perkins and Dr. Ronald J. Stoney could start moving closer to the target...