Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rose Kennedy has lost four of her nine children in violence: John and Robert assassinated, Joseph Jr. killed in World War II, Kathleen dead in a plane crash. Another daughter, Rosemary, is mentally retarded and Joseph Sr., now 80, has been incapacitated for eight years by a stroke. She reserves much of her time for her ailing husband, who is now no longer able to come downstairs...
...mission, the National Security Agency, the Government's giant cryptography and communications intelligence center, urged that more "protective measures" be taken for the ship. The recommendation never got past Commander-in-Chief Pacific headquarters. Another copy of the message, addressed to the Chief of Naval Operations, was lost in the Pentagon. Once Pueblo's plight was known, it took Navy officials in Japan more than 40 minutes to reach the Fifth Air Force headquarters in Japan by telephone. The two commands had failed to establish emergency communication procedures in advance...
...case of the EC-121, the difficulty was as much one of command as communications. Flying under the operational control of the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ-1), the Navy plane was more on its own than it could have realized. According to the Pike report, VQ-1 "lost all effective operational control over the aircraft. Army, Air Force and Navy units monitoring the flight of the EC-121 appeared to assume operational control of the aircraft -and if they did not, no one had operational control." The monitoring units detected the aircraft threatening...
...health of the astronauts was described as excellent. Armstrong has lost just under six pounds and Buzz Aldrin three, but neither man has displayed any obvious ill-effects from the gravity-free flight, the lunar stroll or the lunar environment. Mike Collins, who remained behind in the command ship, lost no weight at all. Locked away with 16 other men-including two doctors and a NASA public relations man-the astronauts spent their free hours playing pingpong, watching color TV and reading the accounts of their voyage (which are sent through an air lock and sterilized by ultraviolet light). After...
Though the astronauts will not make any public statements until after their release on Aug. 12, NASA announced that, at Armstrong's request, it is amending the record of his first words on the moon. Armstrong explained that the article "a" had apparently been lost in transmission back to earth. Thus his statement should read: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." The change reflected the humility of the first mortal to reach the moon...