Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall asked him to join his staff. On leave of absence from Time Inc., Captain Shepley worked with Marshall for two years. He was U.S. staff officer at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, accompanied Marshall on his ill-starred mission to China in 1946, and helped the general in the writing and editing of his official war reports. He returned to home base in 1946 and two years later was made chief of the Washing- ton bureau, TIME'S largest. At 30, he was the youngest chief that bureau ever had. Since then...
...Open-End Mission. As it was planned, the flight of Apollo 204 would have tested both the mettle and the technology of the three astronauts beyond anything that men had yet experienced in space. On Feb. 21, the capsule was to be fired off the ground by a Saturn 1-B rocket to go into orbit for as long as Grissom, White and Chaffee could take it, an "open-end" mission that marked a bold departure from the rigidly limited space flights of the past. It was to be essentially an engineering flight, a manned shakedown for the Apollo systems...
Roger Chaffee, the rookie of the Apollo team, joined the Navy after his graduation (aeronautical engineering) from Purdue in 1957, logged more than 1,800 hours flying time in jets before becoming an astronaut in 1963. During training for the Apollo mission, the boyishly handsome Chaffee came to be especially close to Grissom, at times even seemed to ape some of Gus's mannerisms. Though he prudently stayed in the shadow of his more experienced crewmates, Chaffee shared their burning ambition to land on the moon; in the den of his Houston home hangs a map of the lunar...
...predictions that turned sour, and last week they were hardly about to repeat the error. Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance said that the Administration assumed the war would go on "indefinitely" without "significant change." The military budget provides the funds for additional hard fighting-and for the equally important mission of pacification in the villages (see THE WORLD...
...Russians might use consulates for spying-in the past decade, 28 Russian officials have either been expelled or arrested for espionage-but noted simply that ten to 15 Soviet consular of- ficials, added to the 452 who already enjoy diplomatic immunity in the Washington embassy and the U.N. mission, would not "add significantly to the risk." Spying, of course, has never been claimed as a Russian monopoly, and Morse asked if the CIA might not enjoy snooping from the proposed U.S. consulate, tentatively slated for Leningrad. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach replied somewhat uncomfortably that, indeed, "the treaty...