Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately for diplomacy, the State Department does not normally have to rely on the U.S. mails. Announcing that it aimed to revoke the travel privileges of the three leading Vietniks who journeyed illegally on a "peace mission" to Hanoi in December, the department last week sent the trio registered letters asking them to turn in their passports. At week's end, four days after reading the news stories, none of the three had yet received the department's request...
...Enough." The commission eschewed "czarlike powers" for the proposed Hudson authority, would indeed give it little more than the power of persuasion. Some conservationists contended that this might not be sufficient for an eleventh-hour rescue mission. Democratic Representative Richard Ottinger, who was elected on a plank of restoring the Hudson Valley, said that "with respect to the ambitions of certain special-interest groups, this is not enough." It was at least a hopeful beginning...
...successfully slowing an unmanned, 3,400-lb. spacecraft from an approach velocity of 6,000 m.p.h. to a speed of about 10 m.p.h., and setting it down upright on the moon's surface, the Russians proved that they had finally mastered a technique essential for a manned mission. The first U.S. softlanding attempt with the problem-plagued Surveyor will not take place before May. And even then, U.S. space scientists will not have the experience that their Soviet counterparts have gained during four successive soft-landing failures...
...rendezvous in space. And the well-managed U.S. Apollo program is making such rapid headway that space officials still hope to land Americans on the moon before 1969. Quite possibly, they will try the trick even before their instrument-carrying Surveyor is able to carry out its mission successfully. Neither contestant is yet an odds-on favorite in the lunar sweepstakes...
...Michigan State's John Hannah discovered that Princeton's Robert Goheen and Cornell's James Perkins had just left, after checking up on the use of U.S. foreign-aid funds. While there, they met Indiana's ex-president, Herman Wells, back from an advisory mission to Bangkok...