Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove his undoing. It was probably no accident that yet another spate of coup rumors began to float through Saigon behind the news of Ky's impressive confrontation with Johnson in Hawaii. "We killed Khanh that way," ruminates one U.S. old hand in Saigon, recollecting how the U.S. Mission backed Khanh even when it was clear that the Young Turks had lost faith in his leadership. "And we are in real danger," he adds, "of killing Ky the same way." Ky, at least, is well aware of the prickly sensitivity of South Vietnamese pride, and indeed shares some...
Organization Man. A onetime Prince ton football letterman, St. Louis-born Gene Blake takes pride in being "an organization man" who sees administrative detail not as housekeeping but as a means of achieving the church's mission. Though he lacks Visser 't Hooft's skill in languages, Blake seems strongly qualified for the job: he was a mission ary teacher in India, spent 19 years as a preacher and pastor, served a term (1954-57) as president of the National Council of Churches. In U.S. ecumenical circles, he is famed as author of the "Blake proposal...
...goalie Bill Fitzsimmons, who has been erratic all year, has a bad day, then Dartmouth might come close in a high-scoring battle. But the Beanpot magic entered Fitzsimmon's wand against Northeastern and he has another mission two days from now against B.U. The Dartmouth revellers will have the misfortune today of watching a Crimson team that should be just reaching its peak and is not about ready to be waylaid in the provinces...
...Smith over Rhodesia's future. They refuse to condemn the white settlers and they even sympathize with their leaders. Fearing that Wilson will delay negotiating with the UDI government until the Rhodesian economy has lapsed into chaos, the Conservatives have sent Selwyn Lloyd to Rhodesia on a "fact-finding" mission. The Tories will capitalize on any indications of submissiveness he may detect. They insist that there must be no question of direct rule by Britain at the time of the rebellion. Rhodesia should be subject to limited white control under a constitution which protects African rights and provides for eventual...
...Durban, South Africa, where he spent the better part of the next 20 years. When the Boer War began, he was 38 and had never fired a shot in anger. When the war was over, he was a tough, cunning, unbeatable commander of cavalry-and a man with a mission. Astounded by the incompetence of his superiors ("generals with no more brains or backbone than a bran doll"), he angrily determined to "put matters right." He was well equipped for it. At 48, Allenby was a huge and powerful man with a chest like the hump of Africa...