Word: targetable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cruiser, because "it would not cost so much"). His reception in Buenos Aires was so tumultuous that the Argentine President had his tailcoat ripped up the back. Hoover also journeyed into Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, met Bolivian government chiefs on a U.S. warship in the Pacific, was the target of an abortive bomb plot by anarchists in Argentina. During his trip. Hoover coined the historic phrase "good neighbors," and later he speeded the end of U.S. armed intervention in Latin America...
...Ship's Inertial Navigation System (SINS) will provide the attack center with instantaneous pinpoint positioning, and the tapes can be quickly fed into computers to program missile shots to preset targets. Even while submerged, George Washington can receive messages, and if war should come, she would be able to fire her 16 Polaris missiles at 16 separate targets from below the surface depths within a few minutes (see map). "After that," says Skipper Osborn, "our war is over, and we go home." Three Years Ahead. The technological war to get the Polaris weapon systems built got started just three...
...wire services were the target in another phase of the attack. Last week at a meeting of Havana's Provincial Newspaper Guild, Guild President Baldomiro Rios, a fervent Castro disciple, issued a special resolution. Hereafter, proclaimed Rios, any wire-agency story that lied about Castro (meaning put him in a bad light) would, if it appeared in any Cuban paper, be followed by this rider: "This wire story is published voluntarily by this newspaper, making legitimate use of the press freedom existing in Cuba. But newspapermen and graphic workers of this work center express, using that same right, their...
...last week by announcing his withdrawal from the race for the Republican presidential nomination (see Republicans), and in so doing cleared the path for Vice President Nixon. The half dozen rivals for the Democratic nomination at last had something in common: a lusty will to make Nixon their favorite target, and the Democratic prize probably would go to the man who could prove that he might beat him. The biggest day on the 1960 schedule would come in November when the U.S. would go to the polls to choose the President who would lead the U.S. into the fabulous promise...