Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vigorous, more skilled and more fun than mere doubles. Proportionately, there are fewer singles in the population than there were 20 years ago, because young Americans are tending to marry at an earlier age. But they are the focus of a major part of advertising and salesmanship, the direct target of new approaches in housing and entertainment, the considerable despair of some established institutions, and the apostolate of a freer code of mores for the young. In some quarters, they are called-or like to call themselves-the "swingles...
...drop can be traced to a variety of causes. With more planes in the air, advance formations of fighter-bombers are free to go in over the target ahead of the primary mission, spraying enemy antiaircraft gunners with anti-personnel CBUs-canisters full of hundreds of bits of deadly metal shards...
...west of Ortner." "Fine," radioed Karns. "I'm releasing my jumpers." Looking down, all anyone on the plane could see was clouds, broken here and there by patches of brownish green. Both the U.S. Parachute Association and the FAA have regulations forbidding a jump through clouds toward a target that cannot be clearly identified. Nevertheless, Karns signaled the jumpers, and out they spilled into the void...
...60th birthday, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther last week presided over a meeting of his lieutenants. He emerged with the information that Ford would be his union's "target company" in negotiations that, if they break down, could lead to a strike this week. Those negotiations almost certainly will break down, and the strike is more than likely to take place. "We made the decision not with our hearts but with our heads," Reuther said in explaining why the U.A.W. wouldn't tackle the giant, General Motors...
...next act will come when time runs out on the current contracts next week. Following the script, Reuther will go before TV cameras to announce his "target company"-the one he will personally meet at the bargaining table to pound out a pattern for the rest of the industry. The probable choice is G.M., which has not had the dubious distinction since 1945. As for the distance G.M. might have to go, the U.A.W.'s brimful $67 million strike fund can last for nine weeks...