Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer and an Ohio ruling that forbade the showing of a French movie called The Lovers. In all, nine clergymen signed the public statement: Presiding Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke of the Methodist Church New York Conference; the Rev. Wilburn C. West, Eastern States Mission President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; the Rev. W. Scott Morton, Director of New York's Presbyterian University Christian Foundation; Catholic Bishops Leo A. Pursley of Fort Wayne, Aloysius J. Willinger of Monterey-Fresno, Calif., and John King Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio...
...months, five soldiers in the black-and-khaki uni form of the Pathet Lao stood guard at a large mud hut in a Red-held village near the Plain of Jars. Inside, Lieut. Charles Klusmann, 30, whose Navy RF-8A jet had been shot down on a photo-reconnaissance mission June 6, paced the 20 feet from wall to wall exactly 264 times a day - just enough to make the mile he had allotted himself as exercise. Although he limped painfully on a badly wrenched knee, War Prisoner Klusmann was in remarkably good spirits. "Just think...
...reason: Israel has warned that any such counterdiversion would be cause for war, and the Arab states are unlikely to invite attack while fully a third of Egypt's armed forces are tied down in Yemen. The United Nations last week wearily gave up its 14-month Observation Mission in Yemen because both Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which have been bankrolling the operation, cut off funds, and Egypt had also gone back on its many promises to withdraw its troops...
Bennett's mission is hardly finished in a country with 3,043 county jails that are generally still almost as repellent as federal prisons were when he started. But Bennett is anxious to let younger hands take over. "No man is ever really satisfied with the job he has done," says Bennett. "But I leave with no regrets...
...wreck is credibly contrived. While circling Mars on a reconnaissance mission, the astronaut (Paul Mantee) changes course to avoid a meteor and so falls deep into the planet's field of force. To escape eventual incineration, he ejects his capsule and plunges down into a scene of staring desolation. Hell-hot by day and by night pole-cold, the Mars of the movie supports no visible life and very little atmosphere. However, the astronaut does not expect to be there very long. From the wreck of his capsule he rescues food for 60 days, water for five days, oxygen...