Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faas are a curious double threat. Arnett is a four-year veteran of the war's slog. Though a correspondent, he has also taken outstanding pictures. Faas is the war's top photographer, but he reports so well that his colleagues immediately debrief him after a mission and send out stories under his byline. Since A.P.'s primary job is the day-to-day detailing of events, Arnett and Faas spend most of their time in the field; they have seen more fighting than the average G.I., know more about scrounging rides than any dozen others...
...After a plague of misfortune and mismanagement had put it three years behind schedule, the Surveyor success was doubly sweet. Equipment broke down during tests and had to be redesigned. The second-stage Centaur-the first liquid-hydrogen rocket-had several mishaps and had flown only one completely successful mission before last week's shot. Summarizing the program, the House Space Committee characterized it as "one of the least orderly and most poorly executed NASA projects...
...when the Agena target failed to orbit, and again earlier in the week when Gemini 9's on-board computer rejected vital data three minutes before liftoff. Now, for the third time, Astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan wearily returned to the pad at Cape Kennedy for a mission that had the earmarks of a rueful joke...
RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE Juanita Kidd Stout, L.H.D., first Negro woman in the U.S. to be elected a judge, Philadelphia County Court. Our educational mission is ultimately thwarted unless a meaningful political involvement such as yours becomes more commonplace...
...military and Marine curricula. In Mil. Sci. 2hf for instance, cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled "Dukong river." The hamlet depicted in the sketch is protected by fortification marked "moat--sharpened stakes. Also included are miscellaneous data...