Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fish, hunt and watch his cows. But President Eisenhower pressed him once again into service, and South Carolina's longtime Democratic Congressman James Richards ranged into the squalls of the Middle East to measure the free world's friends. For an evaluation of Richards' mission to date, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Doctrine's First Fruits...
...watching my cows eat grass." But to Addis Ababa last week journeyed James Prioleau ("Dick") Richards of Heath Springs, S.C. A longtime (1933-56) Congressman, Democrat Richards, 62, had dutifully postponed his fishing and cow watching to undertake, at President Eisenhower's request, a mission as vital to the success of U.S. foreign policy as any since the Korean...
...Refuge must be refused to persons fleeing from the pursuit of the legitimate agents of the local government. In case such persons have been admitted to the diplomatic or consular premises, they must be either surrendered or dismissed from the mission or consular office...
...While serving as head of Canada's liaison mission to General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo after World War II. Norman was called home for questioning and a new security check. The principal point of suspicion: his association with Israel Halperin. a major in the Royal Canadian Artillery who was tried on a charge of aiding the Sam Carr-Fred Rose atom spy ring, and acquitted...
...sect of monks who are the original trustees of the bells. Either the present Quasimodos of Lowell House must go to these learned men for lessons, or one of the brothers must be persuaded to leave his peaceful retreat. If the monks are made to realize that the mission will constitute an errand of mercy to thousands, we know that they will consent. We could not face life if they refused...