Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket that had never before been used in manned flight. Only minutes after they were propelled out of earth orbit toward the moon, they were farther than man has ever been from his home planet (the previous record of 850 miles was set by the US. Gemini 11 mission...
APOLLO 8 LUNAR SPACE MISSION. ABC, CBS and NBC begin network coverage at 7 a.m. (takeoff: 7:51 a.m.) of the space shot that is scheduled to send three astronauts around the moon. Reportage will continue with bulletins and spectacular space telecasts until splashdown Friday morning...
Rogers was the nominee who aroused most interest. Despite all the speculation, his name did not leak out until early last week. Moreover, Rogers has virtually no significant experience in foreign affairs beyond a good-will mission to West Africa during the Eisenhower Administration and a brief stint last year as delegate to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Southwest Africa...
...paramount concern in Russia: youth. Many young Russians are openly uninspired by Communist ideology, bored by the endless propaganda, envious of the luxuries that life in the West offers. Reflecting the official concern, the Supreme Soviet created a new Commission on Youth Affairs, whose lofty and perhaps unattainable mission will be to try and lead the young back to Communism. Failing that, the commission can perhaps at least find some ways to control the rowdies who at present are contributing to the Soviet Union's sharply rising crime rate...
...name is the code message used by Japanese pilots over Pearl Harbor to signal their mission's success...