Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, as Apollo 12's astronauts bedded down in the LRL for the remainder of their 21-day quarantine, NASA was making plans for its next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch of Apollo 13 for March 12 and picked the most difficult site to date for man's next lunar landing: the ancient highlands near the mountain-ringed crater Fra Mauro...
...gone quite far. Suspected liberals in the Czechoslovak diplomatic corps are being recalled from foreign posts to Prague, where an eye can be kept on them. Several judges have been sacked, and liberals in Communist women's organizations are being dismissed from office. Many leading journalists and broadcasters lost their jobs in the early days of the Soviet-led invasion; now the hunt is under way for the less well-known newsmen and intellectuals, who have conducted a bothersome rearguard operation against political repression...
...unlikely that prospect, the activity of the exiles has worried Tito. In retaliation, he has begun slipping paid informants and assassins across the border with groups of ordinary workers who arrive daily in major West German cities. Western experts estimate that some 1,000 U.D.B.A. informants are keeping an eye on Yugoslav workers, and that about 100 others are in West Germany to handle more sensitive assignments. Whatever their number, the agents work efficiently. In Munich alone during the past year, there have been six unsolved Yugoslav murders and several mysterious disappearances...
...councilship as a steppingstone for a higher office, and has hinted that she might run for John McCormack's seat when he retires. Kerrigan is interested in the mayoralty. The electorate is aware of these ambitions, but this awareness did not keep Kevin White, who clearly has had his eye on the governor's chair, out of the mayoralty...
Trivia Question: What five movie actors have played Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's private eye...