Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began his belated campaign, it was Scranton's major mission to convince such pessimistic Republicans that they are wrong-that he, Bill Scranton, could defeat Lyndon Johnson in November. Scranton did his best. His effort has been energetic and articulate. He dramatically demonstrated his own conviction that the 1964 G.O.P. nomination is worth fighting for, and worth fighting for on behalf of progressive Republicanism. He will continue doing his best until the last ballot is counted in San Francisco. But in the short time he chose to fight, his best has not been good enough...
...everything that is done in the Dominican Republic today, so that even if one is interested in the administrative and economic side of government, one can't avoid it. And I just wasn't cut out for politics." While in office, Tavares helped get an international economic mission in the Dominican Republic, restored the ailing sugar industry to private enterprise (under Trujillo, it was almost a personal monopoly), created an industrial-incentive program with lower taxes to encourage foreign investment, and promoted a student-credit institute to help his countrymen get an education. But at every turn...
Even Sweden, which last fought a war 150 years ago, is now determined to defend its neutrality, if necessary. Swedish troops performed ably as members of the U.N. peace-keeping mission in the Congo. Two Scandinavians, Norway's Trygve Lie and Sweden's Dag Hammarskjold, ran the U.N. creditably for 15 years. When Hammarskjold died in a 1961 plane crash, he had extended U.N. influence and broadened his countrymen's horizons. Younger Swedes, who previously showed little interest in world affairs, now generally support Western proposals for an ambitious Swedish foreign aid program in keeping with...
Orange Streamer. It was a mercy mission to save the life of Seabee Bethel McMullen of Port Hueneme, Calif., who had fallen from the second story of the McMurdo base fire station and landed so heavily that he nearly scalped himself and suffered cerebral concussion and a fractured spine. Because his legs were paralyzed, McMullen was placed in traction, and word was flashed to Washington that an immediate operation was necessary to save his life. There are no surgeons among the reduced 215-man winter staff on the icecap, and the Navy ordered a U.S. surgical team to risk...
...others, whose mission at Harvard is less solemn, the Summer School Players offer an admirable preamble, light and witty, to a summer's labors. Director George Hamlin has managed to give life and boisterous unity to one of Shakespeare's lesser plays...