Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lose a War. The prime target for the inevitable retaliation would be U.S. agriculture, by far the nation's largest exporter. Many other industries now contributing to U.S. export earnings would also be hard hit, among them chemicals, electronic equipment and industrial machinery. The consequence, Administration leaders predict, would be higher prices, lower profits and fewer jobs at home, as well as shrinking markets for U.S. goods abroad. "To incite trade war would be a fool's game," says Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, "since the U.S. would be bound to end up as a loser...
Escape Module. The North Vietnamese quickly claimed that their gunners had downed the first F-l 11 lost, but there were some indications that it may have crashed somewhere on the way to its target over the southern, or panhandle, part of North Viet Nam. U.S. pilots speculated that the F-l 11, which sweeps in at treetop level on bombing runs, may have run into a hill or mountain. Not surprisingly, the Air Force slapped on a tight security blackout. Since the plane is crammed with the very latest navigational and other electronic gear, the U.S. did not want...
...than any rival stones. An expert curler can slide his stone more than 100 ft. down the ice with a spin so fine that it will curl tightly between two enemy stones and settle on the bull's-eye. He can also send his stone thundering into the target to scatter enemy stones like tenpins while leaving his own team's untouched. The idea of sweeping is to melt a thin layer of ice by friction, thus making it easier for the stone to slide, and strong-armed broom men can add as much...
...target is a particularly tempting and well-authorized one for Irish assassins from Swift to Shaw: the smug face of English hypocrisy, personified in this case by a sanctimonious divorce judge named Sir Toby Routh. His fiercely prudish sermons from the bench drive adulterers to suicide and his wife to drink. He is as pompous a prig as ever rode a Rolls to work and pride to a fall. But the only tumble Miss Tracy gives him is into the downy bed of Gerda Trauenegg, a well-tuned opera singer from Vienna. Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily...
...whole families scrambled into an M-113 armored personnel carrier for a four-minute film-viewable through the driver's cupola-simulating the troop vehicle's jolting movement over land and water on its way into battle. At a shooting gallery, more kids lined up for electronic target practice with Army rifles ranging from the .58-cal. Civil War "Zouave" to the M16, or tried to knock out miniature moving tanks with a fixed "Dragon" antitank missile launcher, the weapon that will replace the present 90-mm. recoilless rifle...