Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world sick with dark quarrels and deadly stratagems the friendly mission of the Ambassadors Eisenhower glowed beacon bright. But when the world arose after the Sabbath for another week of work, the bright rays were already obscured. Nasserist flames had burst out with explosive violence in Iraq, most friendly and most prosperous of the West's Arab neighbors in the Middle East; King Feisal's government had been thrown down, its stout-hearted leaders were either dead or defeated refugees, and Nassermen were in control. President Eisenhower sat down with the National Security Council to study one more...
...crashes, less than 100 miles apart in Texas and New Mexico, last week put the spotlight on a military plane that the Pentagon tries not to talk about. The plane: the Lockheed U2. Its mission: high-altitude reconnaissance. The U-2s, flying out of Laughlin A.F.B. near Del Rio, Texas on separate missions, crashed within a 24-hour period, killing their pilots. Air police rushed in, set up roadblocks to screen both crash sites from view. The Air Force ruled out sabotage, tersely ordered the grounding of some 25 sister ships, and clammed...
Having long cultivated the air of a man of mystery, Banda has become something of a legend among African nationalists. A member of the Chewa tribe and a mission-school boy, he ran away at 13 "to acquire an education, because today one does not fight with spears: one fights with knowledge." At first his parents thought he must have been devoured by lions. Only months later did they learn that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to Johannesburg, where he got a job in a gold mine. While studying at night, he somehow managed to scrape together enough...
...foot in Panama, Milton delivered the welcome news that a joint U.S. House-Senate committee had just agreed to end the controversial double standard under which U.S. and Panamanian Canal employees are paid according to separate wage scales. His No. 1 mission, however, is asking questions and getting answers about Central America's economic problems, and he took along key men to help him with the job. With him were Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs; Tom B. Coughran, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh; and Development Loan Fund...
...Minsk (Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios had been invited by Dr. Fisher, but to everyone's relief failed to turn up). Then came the overseas bishops of Canterbury's jurisdiction-the Anglican colonies and provinces. The procession showed the Anglicans' racial diversity. Among 32 members of mission dioceses, there were nine black bishops from West Africa, four Japanese bishops, eight from India-Pakistan-Ceylon, a Maori from New Zealand...