Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations Arthur Goldberg and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant are scheduled to be there at the same time late this month. Goldberg plans to visit Rangoon during a tour of a dozen European and Asian nations, and while he insists that his trip is not "a peace mission," few who are familiar with his negotiating prowess would be surprised if he sought to contact North Vietnamese diplomats en route...
Having considered all of these possibilities, NASA decided in the late 1950s that a space-mission failure was more likely to occur because of the added complexity and weight of a two-gas system than because of the fire hazard of a pure-oxygen system. Designers spared no efforts to fireproof the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. All electrical wiring was coated with noncombustible materials. Devices capable of sending out sparks were placed in sealed boxes. Space suits, seats, instruments and cabin walls were all designed to avoid the generation of static electricity...
...adventure on which man has ever embarked." Last week, with the tragedy at Cape Kennedy's Pad 34, the nation realized for the first time, in astronautic and human terms, just how hazardous the lunar adventure can be. Old arguments that questioned the whole concept of the Apollo mission seemed to take on new pertinence. Critics were once again asking: Is it worth the cost-in lives, in resources, in money...
...birds. He feels not 10 ft. but 10,000 ft. tall, for his head is among the clouds. And after he has slept off his trip, he reports that he has talked with the häkula, the great spirits-although one Waika who had been to a mission school said that he had talked with the angels...
...Green Berets named a search-and-clear mission after her. Landing lights and television cameras were trained on her when she visited an aircraft carrier, and the sailors were later treated to an "Hour with Michele" over closed-circuit sets. After she spent a night in the field with the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, the soldiers nailed a sign to a tree: "Michele Slept Here." But last week Michele Ray, the red- haired, 29-year-old French beauty and ex-model, was nowhere to be found: she had been captured by the Viet Cong...