Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring of 1965 he served as chief of the U.S. Emergency Relief Mission in the Dominican Republic...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. The grey nether world of espionage, in a masterly re-creation by Director Martin Ritt (Hud), with Richard Burton as the disillusioned British agent on a cruelly subtle mission behind the Wall. Oskar Werner is his East German quarry...
Shriver's official mission was to present the Administration's request for $1.75 billion in poverty funds for the year beginning July 1. One of Washington's smoothest Capitol Hill performers, Shriver adroitly combined a recitation of OEO's concrete achievements with candid admissions of its faults. His interrogators responded with such phrases as "a great public servant" and "a domestic Westmoreland." Even the abrasive committee chairman, Adam Clayton Powell, oozed approbation. "How many stars do we give the general?" asked Powell. "One, five, six? Let's give...
...effort to convert the Mekong's 2,625 miles of untamed torrent into a source of prosperity, the Nam Pong dam will not only store irrigation water for Thai farms but will provide electric power for both Thailand and neighboring Laos, part of it over jointly owned trans mission lines...
...That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read the pages covered with his wife's precise handwriting, and discovered to his amazement that it was a suspense tale about a British couple who undertook a mission for the Foreign Office under the noses of the Nazis in Germany. He was unable to put the manuscript down until he had read the last page...