Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fighting Cock squadron and 90 other jets into North Viet Nam early last month, and hammered at the critical rail and highway bridge near Thanhhoa until finally it was destroyed. His F-105 was heavily damaged by antiaircraft fire, but he refused to be diverted from his mission. For such "extraordinary heroism," Air Force Chief of Staff General J. P. McConnell last week brought Robbie Risner back from Viet Nam, awarded him the Air Force Cross, second in rank only to the nation's highest decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Manned-Flight Director Robert Gilruth. "I think maybe this will not happen again." Growled NASA Director James Webb, "This was not an adequate performance by an astronaut." Gemini Pilots Virgil Grissom, 38, and John Young, 34, were on the carpet for something they did on their recent three-orbit mission. Gilruth and Webb told a congressional committee that the corned-beef-on-rye sandwich Young smuggled into their Molly Brown capsule and fed Grissom instead of the scientifically prepared flight diet was strictly unprogrammed. Mincing no words, the administrators decreed that henceforth "corned-beef-sandwich incidents" will cease...
...flying a reconnaissance mission over the Sea of Japan, 50 miles off the North Korean coast, its electronic ears attuned to the radio and radar of the Communist half of the peninsula. Suddenly, two North Korean MIG-17 jet fighters flashed down. Though the U.S. plane was clearly over international waters and flying a course parallel to the Korean shore line, the Red jets opened fire with cannon and machine guns...
...either evil or good by the intentions of those whom he joins. In Rashomon, the intrusion of the bandit's passion challenges a stable marriage, casts doubt on each witness's version of the rape scene, and brings about death and disgrace. In Seven Samurai, the outsider joins the mission of the samurai in spite of their rejection of him, and becomes their sustaining force as they fight on behalf of the farmers...
Later, at a Scottish mission school, he discovered that they were often stupid and insensitive gods who beat black boys. He worked hard at algebra, read Booker T. Washington, pondered the life and works of Abraham Lincoln: "I saw the land of Lincoln as the place one went to get the freedom and independence one knew...