Word: missions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This concern underlies General Education at Harvard, and its sense of national mission shines through the legendary "red book," General Education in a Free Society, the committee report whose publication in 1945 brought this concept to Harvard education...
...trusting Kadar's word. Some Vatican officials believe that if Mindszenty were to leave the embassy, it would mean imprisonment, and perhaps death. "The only question is," mused one Vatican insider last week, "should he choose this martyrdom? It would be the supreme fulfillment of his sacred mission. But he cannot offer himself egoistically. It is a question of practical timing and of holy vocation. He cannot submit himself until he himself feels that martyrdom will not unduly afflict his people, and that it is truly the will...
Kishi traveled in a U.S.-built Japan Air Lines Skymaster (DC-4), accompanied by 15 advisers and 13 Japanese newsmen. "Economic diplomacy," he called his mission. He spoke for a nation whose per capita income is over $200, three times that of India, whose steel production is five times that of India, and whose rice yield is the envy of all Asia. In Washington he will argue that it is Japan, rather than more populous India, that in Asia could balance the growing economic weight of Communist China...
Serious obstacles complicated Kishi's mission. As one Singhalese put it on the eve of his arrival in Colombo: "We remain wary of Japan's superiority complex toward other Asians." As for India, it is unhappy ovep the way Japan is selling cheap copies of Madras cottons and squeezing India out of the textile market in East Africa and Ceylon. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru could hardly be expected to welcome a challenger to his dream of being leader of Free Asia. When Kishi set down last week in New Delhi, wearing a black wool suit, the temperature...
Aramburu and Rojas brought the rudder back from right to dead ahead, and got on with their mission. The government restored the U.S.-style constitution that had served, until Peron emasculated it, since 1853. The regime wiped Peron's name from public display in Argentina, except for curbstone scribblings and his father's tomb. An expedition was sent up Aconcagua, the Hemisphere's highest (alt. 22,835 ft.) mountain, to topple a bust of the dictator. A team of clerks screened thousands of references to his name from the Buenos Aires telephone book-but recently discovered that...