Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taylor must have entertained at least some hope when he went to Saigon, for he was the chief architect of the current U.S. program there. After a 1961 fact-finding mission to Saigon, Taylor convinced Kennedy that with a drastic step-up in aid the U.S. could still win out in Viet Nam. When he returned to Saigon as ambassador, he began to learn grimly that things were considerably more complicated than that. Moving into a white, French-style villa near a cemetery, he plunged into a 70-hour-a-week work schedule, set about reorganizing the complex and often...
...Their mission, says Addiss, is not to propagandize but simply "to show through music that people are the same the world over, sharing the same yearnings and problems. We don't want to be lecturers; we want to be alive and fun." This week Addiss and Crofut were moving on to carry their message to Malaysia, with Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Kenya still...
...several other occasions as well, Johnson's diplomatic report card also was mixed. His decision to go ahead with the Congo air-rescue operation was diluted by its tardiness and by the fact that the mission was halted prematurely. To his credit, he attempted to restore peace to Cyprus, even though the prospects of success were slight. The effort failed, but only after Under Secretary of State George Ball gave the island's Archbishop Makarios a dressing down worthy of Lyndon himself. "For God's sake, Your Beatitude," Ball scolded the archbishop, "this killing must stop...
...despite St. Aug's well-rounded achievements, says a teacher, "we are aware that our students are not being prepared for the total fabric of life." A Roman Catholic school of 750 boys taught by an interracial faculty of 31 Josephite priests, an order dedicated to Negro mission work, St. Aug's is -to its own distress-segregated. It hopes that some day white boys will be willing to go to school at St. Aug's. In the meantime, says Father Eugene P. McManus, a math teacher: "We are trying to get first-class citizenship in graduate...
...Novelist Petru Dumitriu, 40. Before he defected, Dumitriu's novels were widely read in Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing House. Then, on a cultural mission to pre-Wall Berlin in 1960, he and his wife were able to flee. They had to leave their infant daughter behind in Bucharest, and she has never been released to them...