Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting up these trips is to provide leading American businessmen with a direct experience of a major foreign area. To the trade-hungry Communists of Eastern Europe, the latest tour looked like a possible answer to their economic woes, but the U.S. group was far from a trade mission. Those who accepted our invitation paid their own way as concerned citizens, eager to learn about life and politics and economics in countries that are undergoing considerable change and ferment. They did not go as tourists but as acting journalists in direct dialogue with political and economic leaders in each country...
...Peace Missions. Toure's action triggered a major diplomatic response. Down from A.O.U. headquarters in Addis Ababa flew a "peace mission" eager to resolve the crisis. In from the United Nations clattered a message from Secretary-General U Thant, condemning both sides and expressing "distress." Washington issued a "strong protest" to Guinea and dropped subtle hints that it might suspend its $70 million in foreign aid unless Ambassador Mcllvaine was released. Even Nigeria's military ruler, Lieut. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was moved to send the commander of his ten-ship navy to Accra for explanations...
Ordained in 1946, Pike took over as rector of Christ Church in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and rebuilt a moribund parish; on the side, he undertook some "whistlestop mission preaching" that honed his skills at improvising in the pulpit. In 1949, he took over as chaplain at Columbia University and head of its meager religion department. Pike brought in good new teachers, including Paul Tillich as an adjunct professor. To upgrade his own academic credentials, Pike submitted chapters of his book Faith of the Church (written with Norman Pittenger and still used in Episcopal lay teaching), plus some other writing...
...relying on Hen-dra's cucurbitaceous shape and Dolly Sister face and on Ullett's saturnine suavity. Put them both in riff-R.A.F. hats and let them pose as World War II briefing officers, and things quickly get out of hand. Announcing that tonight's mission will be over Frankfurt, Ullett pauses to inquire: "Who's flown before? I see. Can anyone drive? Oh good. Stand up so they can see you. You'll be flight leader. The rest of you divide up in groups of three and decide among yourselves...
Trigger fingers twitching, the four hirelings have just embarked on what they believe to be a mission of mercy. The pay is $10,000 apiece. The time is the early 1900s. Villa's revolutionaries are up to trouble on both sides of the border, but few can match the hot-eyed fury of Jesus Raza (Jack Palance). "What a name for the bloodiest cutthroat in Mexico!" roars Land Baron Ralph Bellamy. "Last week he kidnaped my wife." When the contraband wife is $100,000 worth of woman like Claudia Cardinale, matters are urgent enough to enlist Lee Marvin...