Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more convincingly than many a spiritual success story-the tremendous, unsuspected battles of the soul that are fought behind cloister walls. As for Gabrielle Van der Mal (a pseudonym), she came to the U.S. in 1951 with Author Hulme, under whom she had served in a U.N. refugee mission. The ex-nun has since become nursing supervisor of a large Los Angeles hospital and last month she became an American citizen. If she has any more to say it is probably what she says in The Nun's Story: "I'm not leaving the Church-only...
Young men and women from Japan, Korea, Nationalist China, the Philippines, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, India and Ceylon-representing nearly a million Asian Baptists-lived for a week at Hong Kong's Baptist mission school, held daily morning sessions of Bible study and group discussion, spent afternoons and evenings enjoying picnics, excursions, movies, talk. Leading topic: national prejudice and discrimination. Said 28-year-old Japanese Reiji Hoshizaki: "When our delegation arrived to attend this conference, our hearts were heavy with apprehension as to how other Asian delegates would feel toward us. We aren't apprehensive any longer. The good...
...Soviets may use economic penetration as a powerful political lever. U.S. industrial leaders have pointed out that India desperately needs $1.5 billion in foreign capital to push through her second five-year development program, and have added a pointed comment. In a memorandum released last week, the World Bank mission tempered praise for the young nation's "new buoyancy and hope" with a warning to the Indian government against its "negative and grudging attitude'' to legitimate investors. Cautioned the bank, which has lent India more than $200 million: "At this stage of development, India certainly needs...
...Agree & Regret." After Pate came crusty, gravel-throated Lieut. General Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, five-time winner of the Navy Cross and a living legend of the corps. He barked that the Marines' only mission is "success in battle," added that if "we are to win the next war," the nation's youth must get a lot more of the kind of training that Matt McKeon had tried to give Recruit Platoon 71 at Parris Island. Both he and General Pate, Puller roared, "agree and regret that this man was ever ordered to trial...
...assignment at the Armed Forces Staff College. Everest, a veteran of more than 14 flying years, was not bothered by the fact that another pilot would soon be flying his plane in altitude tests perhaps at speeds faster than his record. "I've accomplished my mission at Edwards." the world's fastest man told his parents back in Fairmont, W. Va., where he decided as a kid to become a pilot, "and you can't stand still...