Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Kao got back home last year, he wrote Abdel advising him to find a school and get to work at his studies. Abdel picked out the Protestant-supported American Mission School for Boys, and Kao arranged to get him admitted this fall. Kao flew back to Cairo this summer, laid out Abdel's four-year curriculum. It was stiff: four years of English and French, two of German, four years of science (including theoretical physics), four years of math (including calculus). "I did not lead the boy to think that everything was now taken care of," says...
...Nixon has no bold ideas to present," Wechsler said, "He has no mission in life by terming Nixon's enemies "political beatniks." "They hate him for no reason." Except to gain personal power...
...Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier village of Muong Het found that it had been taken by Communist troops...
Tortuous Road. For Setsuzau Kotsuji, the road to the Jewish faith was long and tortuous. As a child, in Kyoto, Japan's temple-filled ancient capital, he discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...
Says Convert Kotsuji, who plans to found a Jewish mission in Japan: "Shinto falls far short of attaining the Jewish ideals of monotheism and cleanliness." Adds World Union Director Israel Ben Zeev: "The Japanese are ripe for conversion. Eventually, they will become either Christians or Jews. But as long as Hiroshima is still fresh in their minds, they are not likely to accept Christianity...