Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed to carry no cash on their person. In desperation, John stepped down and turned to a young woman on the curb to ask for change. "Miss," he began, "could you-" She let him have it with her G-G31 tear-gas device, a $24.95 gun that enfolds its target in a 12-ft. by 6-ft. cloud of tear gas and dye. Blinded, reeling, John staggered off down the street and hailed a taxi...
...Reserve Officers Training Corps is now under attack as a violation of the latter. To idealistic students and professors, ROTC has come to symbolize the university's "complicity" in alleged U.S. militarism, particularly the Viet Nam war. As such, it provides radical students with a highly visible target The ROTC, in fact, is a key target for the next wave of campus protests...
...resolution, introduced by Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann, drew the support of professors from M.I.T. and Harvard. Chester Hartman, assistant professor for City Planning and a member of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, told the Council that the system would make a target of Cambridge in any war where it otherwise might not be. He also cited the growing needs of the cities for federal funds, and said that the $5-6 billion estimated cost of the ABM would drain cities of needed funds...
Speaking on the resolution, Councillor Daniel H. Hayes stressed that Cambridge is not considered a target because of the presence of M.I.T. and Harvard, but rather such technological centers are considered prizes of war to be captured with as little harm as possible. Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, responding to Hayes said, "So any nation would consider Harvard a prize? Would they take the Harvard CRIMSON with...
...elimination of the computing center may push back the target date for the science center by a month, Jackson said, but other complications may delay the building even further. The building is scheduled to be ready for the Fall term...