Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deliberately smashing windows of stores bearing the legend "Soul Brother"-a sign of Negro ownership. In one case, each letter of "soul" was stitched with bullets. Often, when snipers fired from rooftops or windows, lawmen responded by riddling the entire building with withering fusillades, despite commands to "know your target before firing." Mrs. Eloise Spellman, 41, mother of eleven, died when she stood up from her living room couch just as a police barrage began...
...Newark, either. Nevertheless, after building up slowly, it spewed violence in all directions. After the first pop bottles and bricks were heaved, the looters moved in. Harry's Liquor Store, a fueling stop about a block from the precinct house where Cabby Smith was booked, became the first target. A brick smashed the unprotected display window; gallons of liquor poured out -into throats, not gutters. From other liquor stores, Negro looters formed human chains that reached clear around corners. They went first for the imported Scotch (Chivas Regal and Johnny Walker Red Label were the preferred brands), then...
...American rifleman, who prides himself on long-range sharpshooting and an unerringly steady hand. Though infantrymen do get some chances for this, most firefights occur at ranges of 50 ft. or less, in dense jungle that offers only a fleeting glimpse of the enemy. To hit so elusive a target requires "instinct shooting" of the highest order, and last week the U.S. Army was hard at work honing that instinct in its infantry trainees-using, of all things, Daisy BB guns...
...rifle must be locked solidly into the shoulder, with the stock flush along the jawbone. The left hand is almost fully extended, holding the barrel, and the right hand snaps off the shot. The gunner keeps both eyes open and on the top of the target, since most shooters instinctively shoot low. He does not aim. "That's a dirty word around here," says a Benning sergeant...
Expo 67 is Celluloid City. In nearly every pavilion of Montreal's spectacularly successful world exhibition-more than 18 million visitors so far-the viewer is the ultimate target of a projector. Sometimes film flutters futuristically above or beneath him; sometimes images lurk and flicker all around him, caroming off walls, whirring on blocks and prisms, on hexagons and cruciforms. Sometimes movies are even mounted on a plain old rectangular screen-but everywhere there is film, film, film unreeling...