Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account does this action imply that we are taking sides in the dispute. We are not trying to force the other papers to settle without full arbitration. Our mission is one of public service, and public service only. But we cannot hope to print as many as four million copies, and we ask those lucky New Yorkers who receive a copy to share it with their friends--even with total strangers. We can only ask that no one resell the CRIMSON at more than the printed price of five cents...
...obvious: far more than any Midwestern rival, the papers emphasize reporting and editorials that attempt to tell how the world is spinning-and what time it is. Says earnest, globe-trotting John Cowles, publisher of the Minneapolis papers: "I admit it-we have something approaching a sense of mission...
Homecoming. Returning to Germany to cover the Nürnberg trials as a newspaperman, moved on to Berlin as press attache of the Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin...
...celebrate his acquisition of an enormously profitable lead and zinc mine at Zellidja, Morocco, Walter began passing out some of the world's least lavish and most demanding scholarships. Each year, 300 young lycée graduates (average age: 18½) get $70 each, and certificates explaining their mission. Then the Zellidja scholars are thrust off to begin research projects, pledged not to use any money except the $70 stipend. They are on their honor to live by their wits...
Also elected were John H. Johntz, Jr. of Kirkland House and Mission, Kan.; Isaac Kramnick of Winthrop House and Millis, Mass.; David F. Ogden of Dudley House and Cambridge; Charles L. Perrin of Leverett House and Pittsburgh; David B. Sachar of Leverett House and Newtonville; Peter H. Stone of Lowell House and Brooklyn, and Jacob H. Tulchin of Lowell House and New York City...