Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patrick is teaching conservation to 63 black African students currently enrolled at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, in northern Tanzania. "I like the work," he says, "because the Africans who come to Mweka are drawn, in ever-increasing numbers, by some deep-rooted sense of mission. They are the ones who will nurture what is left of Africa's long-ravaged game populations...
...erased just about all doubt that the U.S. can meet its goal of landing men on the moon before the end of 1970. Even as the astronauts were being welcomed aboard the recovery carrier Princeton, American space officials were looking confidently ahead to the Apollo 11 lunar-landing mission now scheduled for July. Said Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston: "Today, this moment, with the Apollo 10 crew safely on board, we know we can go to the moon. We will go to the moon...
...hospitable as it was seen rising above the moon's horizon. Shots of alternate landing sites in the Sea of Tranquility gave support to Stafford's observation that they were "very smooth, like wet clay." The cameras also caught views that were not televised during the mission: Charlie Brown and Snoopy each shown against the background of the moon as they were preparing to dock...
...pick out details of the rescue helicopters hovering protectively like giant fireflies, their bright running lights flashing on and off. Finally, precisely eight days, three minutes and 25 seconds after its lift-off from Cape Kennedy-a scant 35 seconds less than the total time calculated for the entire mission by planners six months ago -Charlie Brown splashed safely into the warm waters...
Died. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, 67, an inspirational leader of the 2,000,000-member United Church of Christ arid vice president of Christian Life and Mission for the National Council of Churches; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that "a church immobilized by denominational division just doesn't make sense," Douglass strove for a quarter-century to unite factionalized Protestantism. His most visible success came in 1957, with the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reform Church...