Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even a mission to the White House seemed to stem the anti-Erhard muttering. In fact, as he stepped from the Lufthansa jet that brought him home from Washington a fortnight ago, Erhard was greeted by a blaze of unsettling headlines. They spoke of closed-door meetings among politicians anxious to get his scalp. His own deputy party chairman, Rainer Barzel, had huddled with former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Erhard's severest critic. In a hunting lodge in the Vierherrenwald, Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier had canvassed powerful C.D.U. state leaders on Erhard's strength in their regions. It remained...
FANTASTIC VOYAGE. What better way to become acquainted with the human circulatory system than to travel through it? In a tiny nuclear-powered submarine, a miniaturized crew of science-fictionees, assisted by Raquel Welch, go on a spine-tingling mission through inner space...
...grinning gallant, the fall guy who winds up heartbroken, dead broke or plain dead. In King's Row, he lost his legs; in Santa Fe Trail and Dark Victory, bigger stars got the girl. In Hellcats of the Navy, he wound up taking a submarine on a suicidal mission; as George Gipp in Knute Rockne-All American, he expired exhorting the team to greater glory. So indelibly was Reagan type-cast as the Great Loser that when Movie Magnate Jack Warner, his longtime employer, was first apprised of the actor's ambition to run for Governor of Cali...
...sales of forest products are falling off. The deep divisions between the French and the English, though less troublesome, are hardly closed. And Canada is still sometimes hampered by a provincial outlook on the world. In one sense, Canada is international-minded: there has been no U.N. peace-keeping mission in the past decade that has not prominently included Canadian troops. Yet Canada has been able to fulfill this role only because it is not a major world power. Most Canadians accept their country's role as a middle power, but still wish that Canada could display more initiative...
Aware that Surveyor was dying in space, scientists decided to salvage some engineering telemetry data from the mission. They turned on the craft's landing radar system to check the effect of failing batteries on its operation, then they opened the vents on the liquid helium tanks to test the system that pressurizes Surveyor's rocket fuel. In a last effort, they fired the spacecraft's big retrorocket while it was still 70,000 miles from the moon. The spin rate slowed, but not nearly enough. Then, while the retrorocket was firing, all contact was lost with...