Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noticed a shock wave radiating on the ground. "Just like a concussion wave from a bomb," Woodruff told himself. Then, with a shock, he realized what had happened. Captain Koehler closed the bomb-bay doors and reported to his flight leader: "This is Garfield 13. I am aborting the mission." He explained why, radioed his story for relay to his home base...
Then Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, 55, new U.S.S.R. Ambassador to the U.S. and first U.S.S.R. ambassador to address the Press Club since Litvinov did it in 1941, got down to the nub of his mission. "If our countries not only normalize their relations but start to live in friendship, their combined efforts will help to clear the atmosphere on our whole planet." The gimmick: a parley at the summit. "The very fact of convening such a conference will have a beneficial influence...
...Algerian war with relentless vigor and to dispatch 28,000 more French troops to join the 500,000 already fighting the Algerian rebels. While he politicked, Gaillard left U.S. Trouble-shooter Robert Murphy and Britain's Harold Beeley cooling their heels, thus deliberately stalling their "good offices" mission to settle the rankling dispute between France and Tunis. Tunisian tempers were not improved as the first of thousands of Algerians uprooted from France's new no man's land along the Algerian-Tunisian frontier streamed into Tunisia and huddled miserably in makeshift tents...
...chorus, Joe will keep the doom-crying column's accent on tragedy. In leaving his brother with the gloomy mission, Stewart presented Joe last week with the original of a recent New Yorker cartoon showing two bearded zealots, one bearing a sign reading THE END OF THE WORLD is COMING! and saying earnestly to the other: "Have you noticed they're not laughing at us any more...
...Midwestern-Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. to build a natural-gas pipeline from Tennessee to the Canadian border, has gone through 789 exhibits and 21,091 pages of testimony, at a cost of $1,500,000 to the Government and companies without reaching a decision. ¶| The Federal Communications Com mission has been listening to the arguments of seven applicants for a Toledo TV channel since 1952, with no end in sight. Says an FCC official: "We'd do just as well to draw a name from...