Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medical Mission Sisters Philadelphia...
...Ciampino airport. The cheer fitted Wilson's mood. Britain -once great but long insular - was again seeking admission to the six-nation Common Market, and through it to the larger Europe that the Market envisions. Wilson and his Foreign Secretary, George Brown, were in Italy on a dramatic mission to explore, with top Italian officials, Britain's chances for acceptance...
...hard to adapt to the faster pace and higher rents in Stamford; some of their neighbors have been amused and confused by their slow Southern drawls. On the grounds that Stamford seems to have quite enough churches as it is, clergymen of other faiths question the need for the mission, but laymen are more open-minded. So far, there have been only two formal conversions, but Pounders happily reports that several others are "on the verge." What attracts converts is the activist zeal of the transplanted missionaries. Says High School Teacher Janet Saine, who joined the Church of Christ...
...Massachusetts politics were squalid, sordid, and petty--primarily used as path for personal advancement, much like politics in any other state. But Catholicism with its doctrine of the resourceful steward ("to whom much is given, much is expected") and Puritanism with its sense of mission (John Winthrop's words when founding Boston, "We shall be as a city upon a hill," are plastered all over public buildings) met in the minds of some of the Boston Irish. It was this type of thinking, plus the love of an uproarious battle that prompted affluent, well-educated families like the Kinsellas...
...became bored again, this time at the prospect of "tending to well babies and anxious mothers," so she worked for two years at a miners' hospital in depressed Appalachia. When that closed, Dr. Smith went to a Catholic women's organization, the Grail, and volunteered for overseas mission work. Now she has no time to be bored. In 3½ years her Minh Quy hospital has admitted 12,000 different patients, and no one has counted the outpatients who show up for treatment during clinic hours. The Viet Cong give Dr. Smith no direct trouble, probably because...