Word: targetable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surely toward the south and east. Polaris, named for the mariner's bright pole star, needed no such guidance now. Brief seconds after it broached the water off Cape Canaveral last week and screamed down the Atlantic missile range, it was on its own-and it was on target...
Angry at the policy shortcomings that made him the target of Latin American stones, spit and insults, Vice President Nixon tried to get rid of Rubottom when he returned from his 1958 trip. The Assistant Secretary was saved by the intervention of 'his longtime friend Milton Eisenhower, but now Dwight Eisenhower is alarmed at the setbacks the U.S. has suffered in Latin America. One recent influence on Ike is Peru's conservative Premier Pedro Beltran, a visitor to the White House last month, who argues that the U.S. should help meet some of Latin America's social...
Moments later, the rocket splashed close to its target within a triangle of three Russian recovery vessels 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, 8,078 miles from its launching site deep within the Soviet Union. This was 1,000 miles short of the distance record set by the U.S.'s Atlas last May. Alerted two weeks ago by a Radio Moscow broadcast warning the world's shipping to stay clear of the 50,000-sq.-mi. target zone, the U.S. Navy had had airplanes circling the area for days; Navy planes saw the impact, traced the rocket...
...days later the Russians fired another rocket into the Pacific target area, then abruptly canceled this series of tests, which was scheduled to last until the end of the month. So accurate were the rockets, gloated Russian scientists, that further testing was unnecessary. Crowed Tass: "All the necessary data has been obtained for the development of the carrier rocket intended for the further conquest of cosmic space...
...minors, Dalkowski labored nervously while a succession of anxious managers concocted bizarre schemes to improve his accuracy. They tried pitching him only 15 ft. from the plate, gradually lengthening the distance, only to discover that Dalkowski's wildness increased in direct ratio to the distance. A wooden target was erected in the bullpen; Dalkowski missed it completely on his first few pitches, then hit it square, smashed it to splinters and ended the experiment. "One night during a game," recalls Steve. "I threw three hard ones over the catcher's head. Each ball went through the wire screen...