Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Contender," Part 1. Former Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson guest-stars as a boxing-syndicate henchman who is kayoed by the impossible missions force...
...German diplomats and industrialists began arriving with the sort of offers that tempted Eastern bloc countries to look suddenly Westward. Rumania asserted its inde pendence from Moscow by trading ambassadors with Bonn; Hungary was toying with the idea of doing the same thing. Czechoslovakia accepted a West German trade mission, and it was to West Germany that Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek looked for the loans he needed to revitalize his country's economy and free it from Soviet domination...
...moon and its safe recovery in the Indian Ocean provided fair warning last week that Russia is well and truly back in the race for the moon. Many scientists believe that the flight was merely a prelude to the circling of the moon by a Soviet cosmonaut, a mission that could be carried out within the next few months. But U.S. space officials are still hopeful that American astronauts can make a lunar landing before the Russians set foot on the moon...
...recovery attempt. Then, after hours of silence that led many scientists to believe that the spacecraft had not survived its plunge into the earth's atmosphere, Moscow made a dramatic announcement: Zond had splashed down "in a pre-set area of the Indian Ocean," its scientific mission ''fully carried out," and had been picked up by a Soviet ship. Western trackers confirmed the successful reentry, reporting that Zond had parachuted into the water at only 6.8 m.p.h...
Double Slap. The triumphant flight of Zond 5 and the test of its voice-communications system left little doubt that the Russians are racing to send a manned flight around the moon ahead of the U.S. which now plans to fly three astronauts on a lunar mission in December. The number of Russian space launchings announced this year-36 to only 18 for the U.S.-adds weight to the theory that the Soviets are working overtime on their space program...