Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...installations that Secretary Mc-Namara is cutting away are a do-the-job mixture of the relatively new and the quite old. An Air Force photographic mission on Lookout Mountain at Los Angeles will be deactivated. Thirteen sites that had been specially constructed to launch early-model Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles, now obsolete and replaced by new Titans plus the solid-fuel Minuteman and Polaris rockets, will be wiped out. Sixteen radar stations that are antiquated in their equipment and cannot feasibly be worked into the integrated, highly sophisticated early-warning system upon which the U.S. and Canada...
Basically, there are only so many ways to wait-standing up, sitting down, leaning over, slumping, and lying flat. But customers and patients, applicants and clients, all take a cue from their common mission, find a suitable code. Couples found in adoption-agency reception rooms affect an air of simple good taste (no jewelry other than religious medals), shun cigarettes, hum strains of lullabies every now and then. The same couple, accompanying their college-aged son to the admissions office of a select university, will dress with understated dash (a necklace of wooden, hand-painted beads for her, suede elbow...
Beckmann was not permanently crushed by the debacle of war but finally responded to what he had witnessed with a sense of mission: "Just now, even more than before the war, I feel the need to be in the cities among my fellow men. This is where our place is. We must take part in the whole misery that is to come. We must surrender our heart and our nerves to the dreadful screams of pain of the poor disillusioned people....Our superfluous, self-filled existence can now be motivated only by giving our fellow men a picture of their...
...Francisco's North Beach, the United Church sponsored the widely publicized, beat-directed Bread and Wine Mission of Pierre Delattre (TIME, June 29, 1959). Also working in that bohemian area with a cell of dedicated lay assistants is the Rev. Donald Stuart, who spends long hours in taverns and coffeehouses on a ministry to the "night people"-nightclub entertainers, skid-row alcoholics, homosexuals...
Douglass, who has championed these experiments despite opposition from more traditional clergymen, believes that the church "must meet people where they carry on their most vital tasks." In Detroit, United Church, Presbyterian and Episcopal ministers jointly carry on an industrial mission at 30 factories, visiting both workers and management during lunch hours. Last week, the Homeland Ministries Board approved the assignment of a minister to live and work in one of Pittsburgh's new high-rise apartment buildings. His "church" will be the laundry room, the sundeck, the lobby-anywhere that residents gather to talk...