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Poet John Donne once listed "goe and catche a falling star" among life's impossible jobs. And Air Force Captain Harold E. Mitchell, who had been assigned the chore, last week had reason to agree: he had missed the week before. His specially equipped C-119 Flying Boxcar, patrolling a 12,000-sq.-mi. patch of the Pacific near Hawaii, had tried to snare Discoverer XIII's descending instrument capsule, coming from outer space, in midair. He almost caught it-but had to watch helplessly while the capsule fell to the ocean below, to be picked...
...three leagues (10.3 miles) of offshore land, provided that those boundaries existed "at the time such State became a member of the Union, or as heretofore approved by Congress." Who was to untie the knots of history? Being too divided to do so itself, Congress intentionally left that chore to the court...
...reelection, he told friends, because "I want to advance our chances for world peace, if only by a little, maybe only a few feet." He told a press conference in 1955: "There is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake, if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace." The determination became more compelling after the death of John Foster Dulles. "I have relatively few months left," he said, before starting on his eleven-nation world tour last...
...thing of duty is a chore forever...
...wartime its men could perform well-even if its old machines might not. The command: the Military Air Transport Service, whose primary military assignment is to move soldiers and supplies to distant battlefields and trouble spots. Because MATS does not fire missiles or drop bombs, and because its main chore is to move and service ground forces, it has become a sort of stepchild, limps along on a small fraction of the Air Force's $18 billion budget...