Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European theaters in World War II, later served as military aide to General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army. He was back in civvies only a short time when General Marshall, just retired, called him back to duty as an aide on his special presidential mission to China. Back on the job for TIME-LIFE. Shepley, as head of the Washington bureau, made the world his beat. If he was not flying the Atlantic with General Alfred M. Gruenther, Shepley might be fishing with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, or on a safari in Africa with...
...good hand at electronics, mechanical engineering, photography. With a fake U.S. birth certificate in his pocket, Abel slipped into the U.S. in 1948 at "an unknown point" along the Canadian border. At home in Russia he left his wife, son, married daughter-possibly as insurance of his loyalty. His mission: ferreting out U.S. defense secrets, especially in atomic energy, by a variety of means-including efforts to subvert key U.S. service personnel...
...lanky Félix Gaillard at 37 is France's youngest Finance Minister of the century. A man who comes from the cognac country, wears the Rosette of the Resistance, plays clean classic piano and dirty rock 'n' roll, Politician Gaillard is a man with a mission. For his colleagues he drew a lucid and gloomy picture...
...West Germany's famed Pastor Martin Niemöller. At week's end the Central Committee had passed the report along to a subcommittee and was preparing for decisions on 1) a proposed merger with the 36-year-old International Missionary Council, made up of Protestant regional mission associations throughout the world; 2) "racial and ethnic tensions"; 3) new member churches...
...buddy (Jack Lord). Taylor shuffles about Madrid in grim seizures of fear, but they are never convincingly documented. In the end, when he has proved to himself that he can take a cloud or leave it, he wakes up to find himself whole again. The adventure is grand; the mission is accomplished with some frightening sideslips. But the movie fails to hurdle its main psychological barrier-the process of the distillation of fear into the essence of courage...