Word: nearperfect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disenchanted Comments. Perhaps because Couve de Murville is so nearperfect as a diplomat, he is elusive as a man. Respected but not loved by his Quai associates, he has the ministry machinery under total and constant control. He takes no notes, commits what he needs to know-which is practically everything-to his prodigious memory. Said one dazed aide: "Couve's been to practically all the conferences since 1945, and he can remember what Gromyko said at this one, what the British position was on that...
...room at Sunnyvale, Calif., Air Force Colonel Charles G. ("Moose") Mathison paced the floor while monitoring the countdown and alerting his worldwide tracking network. After launch, Mathison waited tensely for word that Discoverer was in orbit, broke into a grin at the happy news: Discoverer XIII was on a nearperfect circular course, only .003 of a degree off its predicted route...
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