Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mission, Habe...
...Minh's main thrust-and fizzled. Twenty-three SAMs were fired at U.S. planes last week, including a record 16 on a single day. All missed, thanks to a highly sophisticated defense-part electronic trickery, part "jinking" (violent evasive maneuvers)-used by U.S. pilots. When a mission goes in, radar-rigged C121 Constellations, called "the Big Eyes," orbit off the Tonkin coast, able to pick up a missile launch at the moment of ignition. The Big Eyes flash an instantaneous radio warning to the fighter-bomber pilots, who wrench into tight turns and deep dives that the SAMs cannot...
...giant spacecraft was sent aloft to conduct only one experiment. And after only four orbits, it disintegrated in flight. For all the brevity of its mission, though, the flight of the 29-ton SIV B vehicle last week was singularly important. It gave anxious earthbound scientists their first close look at the behavior of liquid hydrogen in space...
...Ranger mission was the first to touch down, and relief showed on Johnson's face as he got the news: all were back safely. Then the score from Thailand clattered in. The President exulted: "It's incredible, it's really incredible that this could happen with the loss of only one plane...
...year by inaugurating Samuel Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from his Middle Eastern environment...