Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Points are awarded in parachuting for style jumps, in which sky divers execute a prescribed series of spins, somersaults, twists and turns during a 120-m.p.h. free fall lasting 25 to 32 sec. But the biggest emphasis is on accuracy jumps, trying to zero in on a target from 1,000 meters and 1,500 meters. Down comes the jumper at a speed of 20 ft. per sec., twisting and turning, pulling on the control lines as he tries to maneuver the chute through the wind to the bull's-eye. In 1962, using standard chutes, there were times...
...continued to bellow against the U.S. retaliation, and Peking announced that more than 20 million people on the mainland had taken part in angry demonstrations against the U.S. Breathlessly, the Reds disclosed that in Fukien province alone 150,000 Chinese militiamen were limbering up with grenade-tossing exercises, target practice and river-crossing drills-and produced carefully posed pictures to prove it. But in terms of actual military support to North Viet Nam, Peking provided only 15 to 20 obsolescent MIG-15 and MIG-17 jet fighters, which would prove no match for the supersonic F-102 Delta Daggers...
...Times." But beneath the surface there was. for the first time, an undercurrent of real fear from the realization that the city could be a target of any Communist retaliation. Housewives began buying extra supplies of rice, charcoal, dried fish and canned goods. Among the 9,500-odd Americans in the capital, including nearly 1,900 women and children, mild security precautions were quietly taken. U.S. citizens were advised to alter their "normal patterns of movement," avoid public places of amusement, and make "frequent inspections of vehicles for bombs...
...SLUG CARTRIDGE. For run-of-the-draft riflemen, whose aim is usually wide of the target, the Army is experimenting with cartridges containing two bullets, one packed behind the other. The front bullet flies true, but the rear bullet is deliberately made rough-ended so that it lags and drifts a little, approaching the target a foot or more to one side. The resulting shotgun effect is calculated to improve the score of a non-deadeye marksman...
...less than IBM, claims that its computers are 98% efficient v. 90% for most computers. No customer has been more impressed than the U.S. Government, whose business accounts for 75% of Control Data's output; it has installed Control Data computers on submarines to target in Polaris missiles...