Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoopla that accompanied Stanley's mission to Africa, it was a secret affair compared to the electronic safari that serpentined through French Equatorial Africa last week under the intrepid leadership of TV's Arthur Godfrey. Not only did Godfrey overcome serious communications hazards to beam regular bureeek reports back home for his millions of listeners but, where Stanley merely found Livingstone, Godfrey & Friends achieved the heretofore unheard-of feat of introducing underarm deodorant to the people of the Dark Continent. For a static-free report of the mission, see TV-RADIO, White Hunter...
...Schriever, missileman extraordinary, keeps his feet on the earth. His job is to find out how to move an H-bomb 5,500 miles from Point A to Point B in 20 minutes before the Russians find out how, and to produce the hardware that can do it. "The mission is to maintain the peace." he says. "The ballistic missile will improve our deterrent capability. This will make any aggressor think twice...
Last week the San Andreas Fault system shrugged again. A soundless, polite waver wiggled skyscrapers, floors and desks, then awesomely heaved harder, and adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway...
...matter of hours, Greece rejected the offer of NATO conciliation (which Greece had once favored) on the ground that "the Cypriot people cannot be bound by any decision taken in their absence." Mission accomplished, Harding prepared to fly back to Cyprus where British troops inexorably drove on into the mountains, carrying out his orders to crush the last EOKA survivors. The Cypriots-tired of terrorism and tired of counter-terrorism -resigned themselves to more of both...
Damon sees his mother die a Christian martyr and feels his mission to be learning the truths of this strange new sect to determine its place in his own life. His initial reaction is, "If that's your religion, I say to hell with it." He thinks Christianity has a "fascinated obsession with wickedness" and, with a truly moral concern, thinks Christianity an excuse for letting people sin all their lives but still enter Heaven by last-minute repentance...