Word: equiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church's mission for what missionaries call "sheep stealing." Their lack of community involvement is also resented. Says John Hobgood of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations: "These Pentecostal churches are, by and large, an unintelligent operation in the sense that they usually don't encourage or equip the Puerto Rican to function in the larger community in which he must live." Rejecting the social gospel, Pentecostals concentrate instead on a puritanical personal morality. Members shun cigarettes and whisky; women wear no makeup...
...when a batch of aging American F-84s was given to the reviving Luftwaffe, as one British reporter put it, "like free samples of detergent." One year later, despite a brand-new tank factory in Lancashire, Britain lost out to the U.S. M48 tank in bidding to equip West Germany's armored corps...
...amounting to $7,250,000 this year-to Duvalier's graft-ridden regime has been suspended for three months. No more arms are being sent in, and the U.S. has demanded a weapon-by-weapon accounting for the $1,100,000 worth shipped in since 1960 to equip Haiti's regular army, air force and coast guard. Now, Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr., chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti's soldiers, has indicated still more U.S. displeasure. In a note, approved by the highest levels of both the Pentagon...
TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY, by John Steinbeck (246 pp.; Viking; $4.95). Put a famous author behind the wheel of a three-quarter-ton truck called Rocinante (after Don Quixote's horse), equip him with everything from trenching tools to subzero underwear, send along a pedigreed French poodle named Charley with prostatitis. follow the man and dog on a three-month, 10,000-mile trip through 34 states, and what have you got? One of the dullest travelogues ever to acquire the respectability of a hard cover. Vagabond Steinbeck's motive for making the long, lonely journey is admirable...
...amiable but less capable members of society. It matters not whether a man is of good lineage or is self-made, whether he be as rich as Rockefeller or as Henry David Thoreau. But he must have some quality that distinguishes him from the mass, wisdom and standards that equip him for leadership. The people in your article do not meet these requirements. Mr. Guest inherited some money and plays a pretty fair game of polo. Mrs. Guest posed in the nude for Diego Rivera and flirted unsuccessfully with Hollywood...