Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furthermore, the President has not convinced those nations that attended the Manila conference -- and the General is supposed to visit them --that the United States does not seek a purely military solution. Regrettably, Eisenhower has gone on record in favor of "whatever is necessary" to "win" the war. His mission to the Far East will do nothing to change the unfortunate impression of most Asians that America wants only to defeat Communists...
...pair of space missions designed to help pave the way for a U.S. manned landing on the moon got off to success ful starts. Lunar Orbiter 2, which will begin surveying the lunar surface for suitable landing sites this week, was eased into a high orbit around the moon. Astronauts James Lovell Jr. and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. blasted off for the last of the dozen Gemini flights, and, despite a radar failure, performed with polished perfection the complex rendezvous and docking maneuvers that simulate those to be made on the Apollo moon mission...
...novel, once devoted to the exploitation of intrigue and suspense, is more and more becoming a vehicle by which serious writers explore the wretched state of man and the cruelty of the human heart. In this bitter, brilliantly drawn book, Abraham Rothberg, historian, journalist and teacher, adopts an espionage mission as the framework for probing the holocaust that enveloped European Jewry after Hitler's rise to power...
...accomplished killer, Nissim carries out his mission. But Rothberg is far too skilled a storyteller to let him escape unscathed. Nissim has always lost whatever he has loved, but he has survived, and at last he no longer doubts the value of that gift. "On the last six days of Passover," he says, "Jews say a special prayer-the half Hallel. Tradition has it that when the Egyptians, in pursuing the Jews, were drowning in the Red Sea, the Lord kept His angels from singing His praises, admonishing them, 'How can you sing hymns while my creatures are drowning...
Sartre's cage is the problem of life lived in the face of imminent violent death. A group of Underground fighters are caught after a bloody, but unsuccessful mission. Only their leader, Jean (Carl Nagin, also the play's translator) escapes. Later he is taken into the cage under an assumed identity, watches his comrades and lover as they go out to be tortured, and then flees. Of the others, one Sorbier (Dominic Meiman) commits suicide rather than talk, and a young boy (Edward Jay) is killed by his fellows rather than be permitted to talk. The three others...