Word: targets
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...solemn pledge to Israel in 1957 that there would be free access to the Gulf of Aqaba, was still intent on lining up a few other nations before threatening to test the blockade. Should diplomacy or threats fail to solve the impasse, Lyndon Johnson is bound to become the target of heavy fire unless he actually does challenge Nasser. Nor would such criticism be unjustified, since failure to act would amount to a dismal retreat from a clear-cut commitment...
...damage cases from his own law firm, one of the six Missouri and Illinois businesses that have made the junior Senator a millionaire. "I have been scrupulous to see that no conflicts of interest arise," he told the Senate. Long claimed that the Internal Revenue Service, a primary target of his probe, was out to "get me" and had leaked the information about the $48,000 payment from Shenker. IRS Commissioner Sheldon Cohen denied the charge, declaring that LIFE had dug up the facts on its own and had come to his agency for confirmation of the payments...
Proof of Delivery. Mostly, the investigators rely on legwork. While Margaret Kreig was working with the FDA, she became an observer and at times a disguised participant in lurid whodunits, and a target of death threats. In an unmarked car filled with walkie-talkie radio equipment and a spaghetti tangle of wires for tape recorders, she waited outside Macy's in Manhattan one afternoon with a chief inspector. In another car parked near by, a second inspector, posing as a black-marketeer known as "Wally from Denver," was scheduled to make an incriminating deal with a genuine crook called...
...Crafts Council, according to Boston labor observers, lies in the strike by the Lithographers International. The Lithographers International is a high-powered union with a reputation for exceedingly good settlements. Harvard, these observers reason, fears that other unions would use the settlement that the Lithographers would get as a target for their own attempts. And unions with profes- sional bargaining agents like the Crafts Council would stand a very good chance of getting similar settlements...
Unconcerned, the Fed's chairman delivered another lecture, this one against speculative trading by institutions. "Increasingly," said Martin, "managers of mutual funds, and portfolio and pension-fund administrators are measuring their success in terms of relatively short-term market performance. In effect, they set a target on a growth stock, attain that target, unload, and then seek other opportunities for quick capital gains." Given the size of their buying power, said Martin, such activity "may virtually corner the market in individual stocks," at the least cause undesirable price fluctuations. "Practices of this nature" said he, "contain poisonous qualities reminiscent...