Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Kill or Be Killed Raid," on a mission against Rommel's Afrika Korps, the Rat Patrol's leader, Sergeant Sam Troy, played by Christopher George, is forced to attempt to kill one of his own men to prevent him from falling into German hands...
FANTASTIC VOYAGE. What better way to become acquainted with the human circulatory system than to travel through it? In a teeny-weeny submarine, a miniaturized crew of science-fictionees, assisted by Raquel Welch, go on a spine-tingling mission through inner space...
...their first orbit, Conrad and Gordon rendezvoused and docked with an Agena target vehicle that had been blasted into orbit only a few hours earlier. It was the first successful space link-up accomplished so soon after launch, and it simulated a vital step in the Apollo moon mission. After exploring the surface of the moon, Apollo astronauts will have to blast off in their little lunar excursion module (LEM); then, after only 11 orbits, they will have to rendezvous and dock with the moon-orbiting Apollo mother ship...
Happy to Try. Tall, hollow-eyed Rudolf Hess has been a prisoner ever since the night of May 10, 1941, when he shocked the world by parachuting from a Messerschmitt fighter onto the Duke of Hamilton's estate in Scotland. His mission, he claimed, was to end the war between "the great Nordic nations" Britain and Germany. Hess did not have the approval of Hitler for his peacemaking mission, and indeed was quickly denounced by the Führer as "crazy." Hess remains convinced of the sacredness of his mission. "True, I achieved nothing," he wrote. "I could...
...answer. Obviously, if Earhart simply died in a plane accident, there would be no need for a book. By stitching surmise to fact, Goerner makes a book that barely hangs together. His tantalizing if familiar theory is that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were on an unofficial spy mission for the U.S. when they crashed and fell into Japanese hands...