Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Karpovich was also born in Russia, and came to the United States with the diplomatic mission of the Kerensky government. He joined the faculty here in 1927, and in 1949 became chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
...Dispatched, on a rugged (two-month), wide-ranging (up to 18-nation) Mideast mission, Democrat James P. Richards, 62, longtime (23 years) South Carolina Congressman and former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who retired in January, was promptly named by Ike as a special adviser on Mideast affairs (TIME, Jan. 21). Ambassador Richards' job: "to remove misunderstandings" about the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Mideast, survey the military and economic needs of the nations that wish to share in its benefits, report to Ike on how the $200 million earmarked by the program for the development...
...Extracted, after almost three weeks of negotiations with the Polish economic-aid mission in Washington, the first hard estimate of what the Gomulka government expects of the U.S. to help Poland maintain its shaky independence from Moscow. The request: some $200 million worth of surplus U.S. farm products, to be sold for Polish zlotys, and a $100 million Export-Import Bank loan for the purchase of U.S. machinery. Even though the State Department is thinking in terms of some $30 million, California's William Fife Knowland, Senate minority leader, declared he would continue to oppose any sum until Soviet...
Whether or not the robbers were mere French second-story men or furtive Binh-Xuyen agents bent on some dark political mission, no one could say, and General Le Van Vien declined to guess. "I don't suspect anyone," he told the bewildered police blandly. "I didn't think there was anyone who disliked...
Died. Mosha Pijade, 67, top Tito lieutenant for 20 years, leading theorist of Titoism, President of Yugoslavia's Federal People's Assembly; of a heart attack; in Paris, on his way home from a diplomatic mission to London...