Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Eisenhower home, a low stone ranch house in the expensive Mission hills district, curious neighbors clustered to see the two Eisenhower brothers, in dark blue overcoats and Homburgs, go up the walk, step inside and give their coats to a maid. Brother Earl, who had planned to meet them at the airport, had arrived ten minutes earlier. After chatting quietly for 25 minutes, the family drove to the Stein & McClure funeral chapel. There, in a curtained-off alcove out of sight of 200 mourners, they heard the Rev. Donald O'Connor of the Kansas City-founded Unity Society...
...They are to become one republic, with one President, one legislative house, one flag, one army. The Parliaments of both countries are scheduled to meet this week in Cairo and Damascus to nominate a presidential candidate-expected to be Nasser. "I am pleased now to accomplish my national Arab mission and hand over this dear trust to President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the young enthusiastic Arab who is full of loyalty to the Arab nation," declaimed the aging Kuwatly...
...from 1942-44. He escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation in a 1943 lecture, he testified urbanely, was "merely a defense of the European...
...Israel, a country of immigrants, the army has a broader mission than in other countries. It serves not merely as a military organization, but also as an indoctrination and training institution for its recruits who enter as unskilled immigrants from perhaps Yemen or Hungary, emerge as nationally conscious Israeli citizens trained for a trade. The army's top officers have been notably wide-ranging in their interests; one chief of staff, Yigael Yadin, left his job to study archaeology at Oxford, is now Israel's chief expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dayan's successor, 38-year...
...Claude Gernade Bowers, 79, New Deal diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1933-39) and Chile (1939-53), old-time newspaper editorial writer (New York World), onetime (1928) eloquent Democratic National Convention keynoter, historian (Jefferson and Hamilton) and cultural sentimentalist (The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving), whose Spanish memoirs (My Mission to Spain) blamed Western democracies' Red mirages for dumping the Spanish republic into Fascist hands; in Manhattan...