Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief burst of warmth toward the U.S. that followed his U.S. visit, Fidel Castro last May temporarily cooled toward Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, the Argentine Communist who served as Castro's top field commander in the Cuban revolution. Castro went on the air, said that he had been invited to many foreign lands to explain the Cuban revolution, but could not go. So, said Castro, "I am sending one of the most responsible compañeros of the revolution, Dr. Guevara. Nobody should have the slightest suspicion. He will be among us again within 30 or 45 days...
Equipped for the occasion with a Mirage III jet fighter, Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol, 41, daughter-in-law of former French President Vincent Auriol, shot up to 37,000 ft. and gunned the ship to a new women's air speed record: 1,336 m.p.h., more than twice the speed of sound...
...years, incense hung heavy in the air of St. Andrew's Mission Church in the little English township of Carshalton, Surrey. Candles cast a golden glow in the churchly dark, and High Mass was celebrated without a flaw in the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church. There was one slight flaw, however. St. Andrew's belongs to the Church of England...
...Nate was a crew chief in the Army Air Corps when he heard the call to the mission field. The 21-year-old, who had been hipped on airplanes since he was eleven, wrote to his mother and sister: "The Lord clipped my wings ... it seemed logical to suppose that an inherent yen to fly defied the Lord's will, but He said 'no!' " As his letter was on its way home, another from his father crossed its path with a clipping about an organization called the Christian Airmen's Missionary Fellowship. Now renamed the Missionary...
...wasn't an easy meeting, but it was a good one," said General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches, as the council's tenth annual Central Committee meeting in Rhodes adjourned last week. The meeting was good for its air-clearing exchanges between Protestant and Orthodox delegates -and even, offstage, with the Roman Catholic observers to Rhodes (TIME, Aug. 31). It was also hard because it did not produce the one big thing the W.C.C. had hoped for: a real breakdown of the barriers separating the Protestant and Orthodox churches...