Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a six-year U.S. Government mission in India, Illinois-born Dr. Frank W. Parker, 67, was appalled by the millions of sacred cows roaming the land, dangerously overgrazing the fields, eating food desperately needed for human consumption. Because of Hindu religious scruple, the cows can neither be slaughtered nor eaten. There are even old cows' homes...
...addition to these nation-rattling events, there was other hard news to be assessed-for example, the Russian space troika (SCIENCE), and the spectacular U.S. success in the Olympics (SPORT). With all that, TIME'S editors-by the very nature of their mission-went right on with a full schedule of stories on another level, such as ART'S critique of "op art," a new movement across the Western world; MEDICINE'S report on the use of animal corneas for transplant into the human eye; RELIGION'S study of an ecumenical milestone, the first Bible translation...
...there was no blinking the fact that the Queen's visit had been, as London's Daily Mirror put it, "a wholly wretched mission." Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson had hoped that her presence would somehow draw French and English Canadians closer together. While her welcome was warm and cheerful in Ottawa and Prince Edward Island, French Canadians virtually ignored her, and among those who did turn out in Quebec City were the separatists, who shouted rude obscenities, chanted Québec Libre, and fought with billy-swinging policemen...
Indian Premier Shastri made the week's most sensible speech, among other things chiding the Africans for their own racial discrimination against Indians, pointedly rebutting Sukarno by insisting that "our policy must not be confrontation but cooperation," causing a stir by suggesting that the conference send a mission to Red China urging them not to test their nuclear bomb. The delegates quickly ducked that idea, but also resisted the more incendiary language of Sukarno & Co. The conference painfully put together a sweeping final communiqué damning "neo-imperialism," predictably citing South Africa and Angola, but preposterously including even Puerto...
Keeping the Promise. Lieut. Colonel Michael Smolen, 44, deputy chief of the U.S. Air Force mission in Venezuela, lives in the Bello Monte section of Caracas, only four blocks from where Colonel James K. Chenault was kidnaped last year. Ever since then, occasional threats have promised another kidnaping, and one afternoon last week Smolen was specifically fingered. To be on the safe side, Mission Chief Colonel Henry Choate, 47, came by the next morning to give him a lift to work. Even so, the kidnaping took only 20 seconds. As Smolen was walking to Choate...