Word: mission
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dedicating the nation to both the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary-making his the first government anywhere to take the two pledges simultaneously.* Since then, a task force of more than 100 priests has traveled the jungles of southern Honduras on a "Holy Mission": bringing the sacraments to a neglected people...
...money can buy success, Actor-Producer John Wayne's Texas-sized epic, The Alamo, should be a smash; the $8,000,000 budget includes a full-scale replica of the famous mission built on the flats of Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing...
...dusk fell over London's White City Stadium last June 10, Harvard's Joel Landau stood at the starting line for the 4 X 110 relay with the failure or success of the Harvard-Yale track team's mission in England hanging upon what he and three other runners did in the next 40-odd seconds. As it turned out, the four determined sprinters--Landau and Frank Yeomans of Harvard and Jay Luck and Jim Carney of Yale--won the final relay and gave the Americans a thrilling 8-7 victory over the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge...
Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission in the North Africa campaign in 1942; in Paris...
Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul, with John St. John. Blood, death and capture become moving realities in this British battle surgeon's account of a mission to outflank the Siegfried Line...