Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Dan Briggs (Steven Hill) heads the four-man Impossible Mission Force. This week, with the help of a safe cracker (Wally Cox), they smuggle two nuclear warheads out of a Latin American dictator's heavily guarded vault. Premiere...
...erroneously credit the Wall Street Journal with scoring a scoop in July on the fact that a 7-lb. TV camera developed by Westinghouse was scheduled to provide live coverage on the first Apollo manned mission to the moon [Aug. 19]. Aviation Week printed the first story on this camera and its moon mission Jan. 10, and ran a picture of the camera a week later, along with the story that NASA was studying the feasibility of converting its black and white capability to color for transmission from the lunar surface...
...Harold Wilson-that the initiative has to come from Hanoi. In the wake of a secret meeting on the Black Sea between leaders of North Viet Nam and Soviet Union (TIME, Sept. 2), a second North Vietnamese delegation showed up in Moscow last week; though ostensibly an economic mission, its presence inevitably set off fresh conjecture that Hanoi was feeling out new peace prospects. Through Yugoslavia, in fact, came a report from Radio Belgrade's Moscow Correspondent Milika Sundic, that the North Vietnamese had asked the Russians during last month's meeting to "engage themselves in finding...
...worlds. Until last year, Roche was national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, an energetic organization that straddles both communities, and he is still an A.D.A. vice chairman. He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1964 and has also served Johnson, most recently on a fact-finding mission to Saigon in June...
Bobby's own office is an almost shrinelike oasis of calm. On one wall hangs William Walton's impressionistic portrait of J.F.K., State of the Union. On another is an oil portrait entitled Before His Last Mission, showing Joe Jr., eldest of the Kennedy children, in flying togs just before his death in 1944, when an explosives-laden plane in which he was flying blew up over the English Channel. Opposite Bobby's desk, in stark contrast to the collection of his children's watercolors, are memorabilia of J.F.K.-whom he almost always calls "the President...