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Even before the cease-fire began, the effects of the Paris agreement were beginning to show up at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Among the first Americans to board homeward-bound planes were 110 civilians who had been training South Vietnamese police; before long, all U.S. civilian employees involved in military tasks will be withdrawn, leaving behind a fluctuating population of some 1,800 U.S. civilians serving as advisers in such fields as education and land reform, or as technicians working under contract for private firms and agencies. Saigon's uniformed allies were ready to pull...
Baseball is Fidel Castro's thing-along with guitar music and rhetoric. But the Cuban Premier seems willing to try just about anything. Homeward bound from the Soviet Union's 50th-anniversary celebrations in Moscow, Castro's plane stopped for refueling in Newfoundland, so Fidel set out to see the sights of Gander. He tossed a few snowballs, helped a pair of pretty nurses dig their car out of a snowbank, finally decided to try a little tobogganing. Unfortunately the toboggan tipped, sending el máximo lider sprawling into the snow. Everyone guffawed. Even Fidel...
...Apollo's three-day homeward voyage, the astronauts had exceptionally smooth sailing. "America has found some fair winds and following seas," said Cernan after the main engine had successfully lifted the command ship out of lunar orbit. As the spacecraft emerged from behind the moon for the last time, the astronauts aimed their TV camera at the surface below and sent back the first live pictures of features on the backside that are invisible from earth, including the giant Tsiolkovsky Crater (named for the Russian space pioneer). Next day, some 180,000 miles from earth, Command Module Pilot Evans...
...April 1986, one year since the giant spacecraft blasted out of orbit around earth and headed into deep space, propelled by powerful nuclear engines. The earth is now so far away that it looks no bigger than a bright star. On board, the crew is too busy for sentimental homeward glances. In a few minutes, three astronauts will enter a smaller spacecraft and cast off from the mother ship to start the final lap of a momentous journey. Their little craft will carry the space travelers to man's first landing on the surface of Mars...
...House Without A Christmas Tree. Sentimental story of a small-town Nebraska Christmas in 1946 kicks off the Christmas Special season. Emmy-winner Paul Bogart ("Look Homeward, Angel") directs Jason Robards, Lisa Lucas, and Mildred Netwick, CH. 7. Color...