Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subject in at least three previous Administrations probably deserves a bit of blame. The badly weakened CIA, which had only a handful of operatives in Tehran who spoke Persian, has once more been revealed as utterly inadequate. The U.S. embassy myopically refused to let members of the mission make friends with the opposition, lest this seem to undermine the Shah. Policymakers in Washington were guilty of the classic blunder of confusing a nation with its leader, however intelligent, well briefed and even intimidating he might...
...clock with arts-and-crafts overtones," says Venturi, and overlaid with suggestions of tree house, pagoda and the intimate precision of the Finnish master Alvar Aalto. Outside, it is an aggressive little building, with its oversize dormer windows, tight walls and thick compressive hat of a roof. Inside, the Mission style takes over, providing an enveloping timber womb in the form of a vaulted sitting room on the top floor-one of the most romantic and picturesque spaces, like an old Polish synagogue, that recent architecture has to offer. Nothing in this building could be called revivalist;, everything is quotation...
...external decorations or diversionary doodads. The façade equals the living space. At night, with the lights on in the building, you can see the spatial organization-you're reading the building as a negative." Yet this constructivist approach can coexist with vestiges of a low-pitched Spanish mission roof, as in Gwathmey's recent Long Island house...
Mechanical Engineer David Gordon Wilson, who insists human-powered transportation, as he calls it, is really the only way to go on a moon mission. Adds Wilson: "Such a vehicle offers lunar explorers convenience, reliability, independence of energy supplies and beneficial physiological effects...
Bobby Hackett and Tim Maximoff, who spent a week of vacation training with Russian national team members and the Mission Viejo Nadadores in cold and rainy southern California, turned in their usual stellar performances...