Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Prime Minister had come to Rhodesia to try, somehow, to prevent the white-supremacist colonial regime of Ian Smith from seizing independence. It was as critical a mission as Wilson had ever undertaken. The United Nations had urged sanctions to starve the settlers out. Some African states were talking of leaving the Commonwealth. And Wilson himself had talked grimly of the "bloodbath" that might follow a unilateral declaration of independence. At home, where many Britons had blood ties with the settlers, he was under heavy fire to salvage some sort of solution, if only a delay that would prove...
...paid little attention to his studies, but was a champion sprinter and captain of his cricket, tennis and rugby teams. (Noted his school magazine: "Good on attack, but does not always time his passes well.") An R.A.F. fighter pilot during the war, he was shot down on a strafing mission over North Africa, escaped with a broken leg and a badly mutilated face. After plastic surgery in Cairo, he emerged with a drooping right eyelid, an immobile expression, and a brand-new face that the surgeon might almost have copied from pictures of Gary Cooper...
...Reversal of Alliances"? Into Moscow's Vnukovo Airport flew French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a six-day visit-the first French mission to Moscow at that level since 1956. If De Gaulle's envoy was there to lend the Russians nothing more than an ear, this itself was interesting, since the Russians seemed to have something that they would like to whisper into it-talk of a new move against West Germany. In recent months the Russians have been hinting at an interest in renewing the moribund Franco-Soviet treaty of December 1944, under which...
...watched the action on TV as they waited for their own scheduled liftoff, 1 hr. 41 min. later, in Gemini 6, the capsule in which they would make the first attempt at rendezvous and linkup in space. Then, six minutes later, the Agena target vehicle mysteriously disintegrated. The whole mission was scrubbed, and from Houston to the Cape, U.S. spacemen began to search their telemetered data for some sign of what had gone wrong...
Quick Critics. In Houston, Flight Director Chris Kraft, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Director Robert Gilruth and his deputy George Low glumly surveyed the failure of a mission. It may be weeks before the experts can identify the "glitch," the space-age devil that caused the trouble. And if it turns out to be a major design failure in the Agena, the Gemini program is in deep trouble. Five of the next six Gemini missions involve rendezvous and docking exercises with an Agena target...