Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some Uganda citizens. The excuse for this premeditated U.S.-Tshombe aggression on Uganda was an abortive attempt to cut off supply routes of Tshombe's enemies. Either by coincidence or premeditation, while Uganda was under attack, 150 U.S. jet fighters were en route to North Vietnam for a similar mission...
...Inglewood, Calif., who scored three in a month-all on par-four holes, of 330, 330 and 290 yds. Then there was Harry Poli, 56, who plays with a putter exclusively and holed out his 150-yd. tee shot last June at the Salem, Mass., Municipal Golf Course. At Mission Hills Golf Club in Northbrook, Ill., members are still shaking their heads over the golfer who topped his drive on the 15th tee and rolled it into the cup, 175 yds. away...
Impossible Mission. Leaving the vicinity of St. Louis on May 14, 1804, the explorer's Corps of Discovery struck north along the Missouri. There were 45 untested men in Lewis' party and appalling instructions in his pouch: 1) explore the northern half of the new territory, 2) find a navigable northwest passage to the Pacific, 3) establish U.S. sovereignty over the Indian tribes, 4) make accurate maps and note favorable sites for settlement, 5) catalogue the animal, vegetable, mineral and human resources, and 6) do the whole...
...instance, on the recommendation of the University Grants Com- mission, a certain portion of the Annamalai faculty has been trying for the past two or three years to gain approval of a measure that would put 30% of an arts student's grade on class work, instead of all on the public examination. To date they have been unsuccessful, but resistance has been gradually waning...
From West Berlin's bleak Spandau Prison, an all but forgotten voice was heard. It belonged to Rudolf Hess, 70, who in May 1941, when he was Hitler's Deputy Führer, flew from Germany to Scotland on a bizarre mission. He begged the British to make peace, but all he did was force Hitler to denounce him as insane, and land himself in a British jail. Hess was sent to Spandau after being convicted of war crimes at Nürnberg, and over the years rumors of madness cropped up again, fed by his refusal...