Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those merry mischiefmakers, the editorial cartoonists, Lyndon Johnson's prefabricated one-man show in Atlantic City was a target too good to miss. They didn't miss. Paul Conrad, the Los Angeles Times's skillful puncturer, managed to get in two telling darts: one showed Johnson surrounded by a host of his own images on TV screens-and fuming because one of the sets showed an interloping Yogi Bear. In the other Conrad cartoon, a complacent President patted himself on the back while informing the nation: "Extremism in defense of my program is no vice; and moderation...
...Triennale, whose theme is leisure, the emphasis is on the lighthearted Yet the stocky curves of Finnish target rifles or rowboats, the unbulky, trim-below-the-hips power of an Italian Gilera 250-cc. motorcycle, or the sweep of Italian wicker rocking chairs show amply that much art is not made to hang on walls...
While the nation worried about the possibility of an auto strike, each of the three union bargainers assigned to the Big Three makers argued for the privilege of having his firm selected as the United Auto Workers' strike target. Finally, Walter Reuther gave the nod to Chrysler Corp., at the same time moving the strike deadline back to Sept. 9 so that there will be labor peace during President Johnson's Labor Day speech in Detroit. Following the divide-and-conquer technique that he has used so successfully in the past, Reuther hoped to pressure Chrysler into granting...
...Later Reuther managed to bring Christ to the bargaining table by asserting that He "would have given the most militant trade-union argument you ever heard." At week's end Reuther decided to increase pressure on the auto companies by delaying until this week the selection of a "target company"-the one that the U.A.W. will strike first if no settlement is reached...
...plantations often pay "taxes" to the Viet Cong guerrillas lest they damage property and kidnap foremen. Today, the 5,000 Metropolitan Frenchmen in South Viet Nam walk softly. "We feel that we should bloom quietly, like violets," says one. Ironically, the French violets are being protected by the chief target of De Gaulle's criticism, the U.S., as it struggles to save the country from Communism...