Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government employs its ambassadors as phrasemakers rather than policy-shapers. But in its proper context, corporate public relations has a profound influence on corporate policies. When public relations fulfills this role, it is based not nearly so much on word skills as on sophisticated understanding of research techniques. In brief, corporate public relations today uses a far broader blend of disciplines than the writer of the Essay uncovered...
...Writer Altman's comment on the "flickering" nova [July 14]: It is accepted in U.S. education circles that "nova" as applied to the Nova complex is derived from the Latin "new." However, we have encountered this ploy of the short-lived star before; the answer is that the "brief" life of a nova may be several thousand years...
...mercenaries whom Mobutu himself had hired turned out to be largely a hit-and-run affair. Some 180 mercenaries of French Colonel "Bob" Denard's 6th Commandos, supported by Katanganese soldiers of the Congo army, moved into six towns, the most important being Bukavu and Kisangani. After several brief clashes with Mobutu's advancing regulars, the mercenaries last week commandeered 27 trucks and retreated toward the safety of interior Punia, halfway between Bukavu and Kisangani. Another mercenary, Major Jean Schramm, is in control there, and can help the rebels escape to Angola or Rhodesia...
They looked like lotus blossoms in their pastel ao dai, sweeping by the aging buildings of Harvard Yard. The blossoms were 46 frail South Vietnamese businesswomen, aged 25 to 45, who last week, after a brief stopover in Washington, moved into a Radcliffe College dormitory and began attending the International Marketing Institute's classes held at Harvard Business School...
...purpose of the Confession "is to call the church to that unity in confession and mission which is required of disciples today." In 1958 a drafting committee had been appointed to prepare "Brief Contemporary Statement of Faith." The committee worked for six years. In 1965 it proposed to the General Assembly the Book of Confessions, The Confession of 1967, and the changes in the ordination vows that would be required if the first two proposals were adopted...