Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pragmatic token of encouragement to the increasingly self-assertive, outward-looking nations within the once monolithic Communist bloc. And while Methodist Mills airily dismissed the need for such a gesture, a dramatic "independence" speech by Rumanian Boss Nicolae Ceausescu pointedly underlined the urgency behind a scheduled fence-mending mission to Bucharest by Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev (see THE WORLD...
...expectant father who berates himself just before the bandit attack with: "What kind of man was I, to get my wife pregnant at a time like this?" As the wife, Betty Field runs the risk of menopausal pregnancy, while the other girls crank up enough trauma for several melodramas. Mission Leader Margaret Leighton is a sexually repressed religious nut with lesbian leanings toward Teacher Sue Lyon. Anne Bancroft (in a role vacated by Patricia Neal when she suffered a stroke) plays a tough mission doctor who drinks, smokes, tells truths that hurt, and ultimately saves everyone else by giving herself...
...measure of last resort." The Rev. Frank H. Caldwell, who was elected moderator by the assembly, acknowledged that civil rights issues "underlie a great deal of unrest and dissension" in his church, but held that the unrest is leading to a redefinition of the church's mission...
...four, she does her own shopping, makes a practice of challenging dumfounded clerks to explain which products are the best buys. Denounced at first by the food industry-which has since heeded many of her suggestions-Mrs. Peterson received angry letters addressed to "Mrs. Snoopy." In defense of her mission, she points-out that in contrast to yesteryear's corner grocery, the modern supermarket stocks an average 8,000 items, contends that the citizen's "ability to judge must be aided." She has won high praise from President Johnson, who declared that "through her dedication...
True Heirs. By comparison with the 2,396,000 thriving, mission-minded Utah Mormons, the Reorganized Saints appear to be a fossilized, forgotten sect: their membership is only 191,400, mostly in California and the Midwest, and the church's growth rate is a modest 5,000 a year. Nonetheless, the Reorganized Saints steadfastly maintain that they are the true spiritual heirs of Joseph Smith, and they have plenty of his progeny to bolster the claim. Although the Utah Mormons claim only one direct descendant of Smith, at least 190 are Reorganized Saints, and their President, W. Wallace Smith...