Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistance in taking commercial or advertising pictures must be cleared at a high level. Moreover, the XB-70 was such a highly valuable plane that it should never have been placed in such a potentially dangerous situation. Brown singled out for blame the officers who authorized the picture-taking mission. He relieved Colonel Albert M. Gate from his job as deputy for systems testing at California's Edwards Air Force Base and reprimanded two other colonels; all of them had unaccountably ignored orders to clear all such flights with their top superiors...
...makes the task of dinosaur-fighting just that much more appealing. "I don't give a dawn whether they buy it or not, as long as they read it. If they're not interested, I don't want them to touch it." He enjoys talking like a boy-with-mission and, if the magazine survives beyond its next issue, he's probably found as good a mission as any. "But look," he says as he prepares to spend a year in Chicago "reading manuscripts of something," "I've already had enough jobs to tell my grandchildren about...
...orbiter's prime mission is to transmit some 350 medium-and high-resolution pictures of nine possible landing sites for U.S. astronauts near the lunar equator. It will also take an admiring look at Surveyor 1, which now sits silently on the moon's Ocean of Storms after prodigiously transmitting more than 11,000 close-up pictures last June. After dry-developing its own film, Lunar Orbiter 1 will use a light scanner one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair to send pictures back to earth for kinescope reproduction...
From launching to final picture transmission will take 35 days. At the same time, Lunar Orbiter 1 will continue its other chores-measuring radiation and detecting micrometeorites in its scouting mission for the astronauts yet to follow...
Operation Harelip. The Army, which operates most of the U.S. military hospitals in Viet Nam, is hesitant about letting its medics take on civilian care, insisting that "our mission is to support our own troops." After a rash of plastic surgery for cleft-palate victims won the nickname "Operation Harelip" for all U.S. compassionate services, the Army officially put aid to civilians on an "emergency only" basis, partly on the ground that noisy children were disturbing sick servicemen...