Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russell G. Davis, associate director of the Center for Studies in Education and Development, will go to Vietnam this spring as a member of a mission to study its needs in health and education. He was appointed by John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...members of the mission will spend eight to ten days in South Vietnam evaluating the programs already in progress and determining what new programs are necessary for social and economic development. Francis Keppel, U.S. Commissioner of Education and former dean of the School of Education will head the subgroup on education, in which Davis will take part; Surgeon General Luther Hodges will be in charge of the subgroup studying health problems...
...came while Nkrumah was flying toward Peking on a self-appointed, self-inflated peace mission. Like the Nigerian coup six weeks earlier, it was led by Sandhurst-trained officers who knew precisely what they were doing. At 4:30 a.m. in the predawn darkness of Accra, two brigades of Ghanaian troops quietly took over the airport, the cable office, all government ministries and the government radio station. While early-morning market mammies stared, Jeeploads of soldiers moved into the suburban gardens of government Ministers and tanks deployed around Nkrumah's presidential compound itself...
...weather that Florida does not advertise locked the cape in clouds and rain. When the skies finally cleared, low pressure readings from a small nitrogen sphere that operates fuel valves delayed the lift-off for 31 hours; at one point, NASA control in Houston decided to scrub the mission, but technicians on the pad convinced Launch Director Kurt Debus that the pressure-though low-was sufficient to complete the mission. The rest was something for rocketeers to cheer about and a new eyeful for the millions who watched on television...
Died. Charles Von Fremd, 40, CBS newscaster, who reported on Washington from 1953 to 1957 when he shifted his beat to space, covering nearly every mission from the first Navaho rocket firings to last December's Gemini space rendezvous; apparently of a heart attack; in Bethesda...