Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY 67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). ABC Science Editor Jules Bergman and Bill Owen discuss "Our Next Step in Outer Space"-the Apollo moon mission-with the help of models and animated drawings...
Despite his differences with Manchester, Roberts' main mission in Truth is to debunk the tomes purporting to prove-contrary to the Warren Commission findings-that J.F.K. was the victim of a conspiracy. On this question, Manchester and Roberts are in accord. Lincoln's body was disinterred four times, and Roberts speculates that the widespread doubts about the assassination raised by the conspiracy mongers may in time lead to demands that John Kennedy's remains also be unearthed...
...illogical extension of such 1950-style scenes as Los Angeles' Venice West, New York's South Village, and San Francisco's own North Beach, where the beats of the Kerouac-Ferlinghetti-Ginsberg generation gathered in delicious despair. What has been added is a vague sense of mission, drawn from the ideals of the New Left and the new lotus-eaters. Central to that new theme are "The Diggers," who run a sort of psychedelic soup kitchen providing free chow to hungry hippies...
...Diggers beg leftovers and handouts from nearby restaurants, butcher shops and groceries, rumble around in a rainbow-painted truck dispensing stew and sympathy. "The whole idea is love," explains Digger Leonard Sussman, 23, who recently quit an insurance job in New Jersey to join the love-Haight mission. "We have a farm in Mendocino given to us by a friend where we'll grow food," he explains, "and other Diggers will go to Chile or Mexico to grow marijuana in the backyard...
...monsoon clouds began to break up, U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawks from the carriers Kitty Hawk and Ticonderoga began hitting the usual railyards and petroleum dumps while U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers based in Thailand got ready for what Flight Leader Captain Charles G. Murphy described as "the mission I'd been waiting for, the granddaddy of them all." Coincidentally, Thailand finally made official and public what everyone has known all along: 55% of all U.S. bombing of the North originates from the four U.S. airbases leased from the Thais, where the bulk of the 35,000 U.S. personnel...