Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halfway through last week's full-dress parade of political troubles, the President fielded two press conference questions on the nation's mission in the long-range struggle with Communism. Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin, quoting from a resolution by a national meeting of Presbyterians, braced Presbyterian Eisenhower on the moral question of U.S. help to countries "where human freedom is utterly dead," for example, Latin American dictatorships...
Declared Chief Western Delegate James B. Fisk, the lean and deliberate executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories: "We embark, with every hope, on what can well be a historic mission-to lay the essential technical basis for the important decisions which lie ahead." To the Western scientists' surprise, Chief Soviet Delegate Yevgeny K. Fedorov, identified as a Soviet Sputnik specialist, spoke in the same vein. "It is not for us to decide the cessation of tests," he said. "This is up to the governments...
Behind her, Grace Morley is leaving a museum she has built up from scratch, and that now boasts a growing first-rate collection, an active membership of 4,400, an annual operating budget of $150,000. Says she, "I'm rather happy-my sense is of 'mission accomplished.' " As a farewell present, she will take with her four massive portfolios of art contributed by some 200 local painters, printmakers, watercolorists and sculptors whom she has long championed. Their admiration and affection is warmly returned by Grace Morley, who says firmly: "The Bay Area...
Back to the Crusades. De Gaulle has no desire "to prejudge the destiny of Algeria," declared Malraux. What the general does want to do is to "transform" fraternization into some kind of voluntary association between France and Algeria-and in the process to give France a new sense of mission. "Some countries," Malraux proclaimed, "are never greater than when they fall back upon themselves-England, for instance. But the greatest France in the eyes of the world is not the France of Louis XIV; it is the France of the Crusades and that of the Revolution. And the French will...
...Navy began a search for the missing bus, another sailor was grabbed just outside the base. At the same time, across the island at the northern edge of the Sierra del Cristal, U.S. Consul Park Wollam set off into the hills with a pair of Cuban guides. His mission: negotiating the release of ten U.S. and two Canadian executives and engineers kidnaped by Raúl Castro's men two days earlier from the village of Moa, site of a $75 million nickel-processing plant under construction for Freeport Sulphur Co. (TIME...