Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISSION TO MALAYA (ABC, 9:30-10;30 p.m.). A continuing series on "The Daring American" focuses on two Peace Corps nurses in Malaya...
...action shifts to a Navy cruiser where Captain John Wayne greets two Japanese torpedoes with relish, warmed by the prospect of "a gut-bustin', mother-lovin' Navy war!" First as captain, then as Admiral "Rock" Torrey, whose ultimate mission is to oust the enemy from the fictional islands of Gavabutu and Levu-Vana, Wayne delivers a bedrock performance that provides anchorage for the shipshape supporting cast. Pick of the lot is Nurse Patricia Neal, who enlivens Wayne's hours ashore with straightforward passion. Wayne woos his long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations...
Hoare sent out an appeal for more mercenaries, and by last week he had recruited and trained 270 new whites from South Africa, Rhodesia and Britain, who got six weeks of drill at the Congo's Kamina airbase, then moved north with Hoare to perform their first big mission-isolation of the rebels from their sanctuaries in Sudan and Uganda...
...electronic blackout had been made familiar by earlier space shots. And despite the fact that the capsule dropped into the Atlantic about 60 miles short of its se lected landing spot, Molly's three-orbit cruise, like the moon flight of Ranger IX, was an all-but-perfect mission. By changing their course three times, Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young demonstrated that U.S. spacemen are making noteworthy progress as they tackle the burgeoning problems of getting a man to the moon...
...flight, and to change speed and orbital path. As for the crowded cockpit itself, its instrument panels bristled with an intricate array of switches, knobs and dials that controlled everything from the air conditioning of the astronauts' space suits to the most delicate computer computations necessary for the mission. Everything was there in carefully planned, expensive detail; there was even a little mechanical pencil dangling by a chain from a spring-loaded reel. Price of one pencil...