Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, a Soviet trade mission in Ottawa offered to buy some $200 million worth of U.S. wheat to ease the effects of a disastrous harvest. Czecho slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary weighed in with formal bids for another $60 million worth. First reaction in the U.S. was heavily favorable-even Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater said he was for it. But suddenly the whole thing seemed to bog down...
...During preparations for Walter M. Schirra's mission, 14 storage batteries were rejected because of leakage...
Coming at a time when a Brazilian mission was in Washington seeking a crucial credit extension, Lacerda's statement was the final straw so far as Goulart was concerned. His Justice Minister declared the two state governors "in a true state of belligerence with the federal government," and the President went to Congress. If the Congressmen declare a state of siege, Goulart will assume power to censor the press, ban political meetings, search homes and make arrests without warrants, restrict travel, banish anyone to "any healthful populated area" in Brazil, and seize all state militias...
Personally, the correspondents are serious, somewhat on the young side, energetic, ambitious, convivial, in love with their work. So in love, in fact, that they talk about little else. They have a strong sense of mission...
...rocket engine fails to deliver a few percent of its planned thrust, the payload that it lofts into space must be lightened. Since every ounce is calculated with exquisite care, this means eliminating some piece of equipment, and little can be jettisoned without profound changes in the whole mission...