Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their central idea is the truth that a university has a "special mission" in the discovery and transmission of knowledge. A "special mission" is not a specialized function, one among others, as if a university were like a business corporation or a labor union. It is a mission special to itself to challenge the assumptions of our daily routine, including the assumptions that make possible specializations in society and even in the university. To challenge is to rethink, and rethinking requires mastery of the traditions of thought...
Although the $85 million dollar NASA-funded project has been directed by a consortium of four groups--CRA, MIT's Center for Space Research, Columbia University and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland--the main impetus for the mission has come from 60 Garden St. Giacconi is the overall director of the Einstein Observatory, while scientific responsibility rests with Harvey Tannenbaum, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory...
...another will be dispatched to a number of African capitals to discuss the Rhodesian question. The third, Assistant Under Secretary Derek Day, will go to Salisbury in an effort, as Lord Carrington put it, to develop "the closest possible contacts with Bishop Muzorewa and his colleagues." This fact-finding mission will probably last until after the opening of the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, in early August, thereby relieving the Thatcher government of the need to take any kind of action on Rhodesia in the meantime. After declaring ambiguously that the U.S. and Britain must recognize that there...
...Beret Commander Simons won the Distinguished Service Cross in 1970 after flawlessly leading a helicopter raid on a heavily guarded P.O.W. camp near Hanoi only to discover to his chagrin that there were no Americans there to be rescued. Last February the retired colonel led a more fruitful rescue mission on behalf of his old friend H. Ross Perot, who asked him to free two of his Electronic Data Systems employees from a fortress-like Iranian prison. Simons succeeded after arranging for a street mob to storm the prison, from which 11,000 prisoners escaped...
...premise is slender. Because of farfetched plot developments, a crew of seven earthlings lets an alien invade its spaceship as it returns home from a routine interstellar mission. The toothy alien is no fun: his ever changing appearance summons up everyone's worst fantasies about shellfish, and his sole aim is to devour each of the crew members. Once this narrative pattern is established, the only suspense involves the question of who will be eaten next. Since the movie's generally good actors (among them Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Sigourney Weaver) all play...