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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lighter side, when he left Beirut in 1954 after three years as Middle East bureau chief, he was the subject of a tongue-in-cheek U.S. embassy cable to the State Department. Dispatch No. 439 began: "Plumpish, sunburned, middle-aging James Bell had been a man with a timely mission: to present the complex, rapidly unfolding story of the Middle East to TIME readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...remedy their ills. As one Administration official put it: "Human and physical planning cannot really proceed down two lines; they are components of a closely related development process. In these kinds of domestic programs it is unlikely that any federal, state or local agency can carry out its mission within its own jurisdictional borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Room at the Bottom | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...some important exceptions. In seven small observatories scattered around the world from the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston to Carnarvon, Australia, small groups of NASA astronomers will be devoting their full attention to the sun. What they see might well determine the success or failure of the Apollo moon mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Weather Report from the Sun | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Computer Digestion. To carry out his mission, NORAD's commander, General Dean C. Strother, 57, can muster a force of more than 100,000 men, a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, pronounced bemuse) that stretches from Alaska to England, squadrons of missile-armed jet fighters, and flocks of Bomarc, Hawk and Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missiles. By its very definition, NORAD is a defensive force; by very obvious design, it adds immeasurably to the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Its buried COC is designed to survive any sneak attack; its trained staff will be able to make almost instantaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: A Mountain of Preparedness | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Combat or Conference. Johnson added that "our decision to stand firm has been matched by our desire for peace" -at which point, many listeners thought that they would hear some news about the peace mission. The President kept mum, but in pursuit of that mission, Vice President Hubert Humphrey last week talked with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Union & the War | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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