Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MISSION IS TO DEFEND THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, ALASKA AND THE NORTHEAST AREA FROM AN ATTACK: NOT TO DEFEND THE ROLES OF THE RESPECTIVE SERVICES...
...aircraft with short (7½ ft.), knife-edged wings. Johnson checked the plane carefully: 5,000 Ibs. of fuel, no armament, a special package of instruments whose faces stared at a 35-mm. movie camera. His preflight check done, "Scrappy" Johnson "just got into the plane and took off." Mission: a new high-altitude record...
...India, where young girls were once dedicated to temple gods as devadasis, whose mission was to serve worshipers with their bodies, whole castes and communities engage in prostitution, and the government's long war against the profession has met with singular lack of success. When the state of Bengal tried to shut down brothels after World War II, it merely found itself confronted with a sudden rash of "Bath and Massage Clinics." Now much the same story seemed to take place again. Outside New Delhi's Parliament building 75 sari-clad young women protested to M.P.s...
...painted popsies of the world's most famed red-light district, he is well known as Père Pigalle, and his phone number is carried in many a swinging handbag. The neon-lighted little night world of bars, nudity and clip joints is his mission field...
National prestige may make it important to shoot humans through space, but an actual landing on the moon or a planet is about the only mission for which a human crew would be a profitable payload. Some of the scientists at Denver thought that the first landings should be made by instruments to feel out the ground, but all agreed that only the alert and flexible human brain can do full justice to unexpected phenomena. Even on the nearby moon, the unexpected is to be expected. No one knows for sure what the actual surface is like...