Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shawnee Mission, Kans...
...detachment of army engineers last week embarked for Borneo to build landing strips as part of a plan to help Malaysia in its "confrontation" with hostile Indonesia. Australia also agreed to a U.S. request for more aid to South Viet Nam, and the government plans to increase its mission in Saigon, which now consists of only 30 army instructors. But Australia, a SEATO member and often hopefully regarded as the West's anchor in the South Pacific, is still woefully unable to back up its brave intentions...
...California: the Western Intercollegiate Rowing championship on San Diego's Mission Bay, beating Washington by one-half length. Rowing against strong tides over a 2,000-meter course, the undefeated Golden Bear crew pulled away from Washington at 1,000 meters, held its margin with a strong 40 strokes per minute, became early favorites, along with Harvard, for the Olympic trials this July...
This Spring the city sent a resident physician at the city hospital to the Phillipines to seek interns for next year, it was also revealed at Monday night's meeting. The mission was reportedly successful, and the hospital has secured its quota of interns from Filipino medical schools...
Wallace campaigned in Indiana as "a man with a mission," spent about $50,000 on his effort against what he calls the "civil wrongs" bill. In conservative Indiana, he hoped to surpass the 34% of the Democratic vote he received in last month's Wisconsin primary. His 29.8% fell short of the mark, but Wallace took it as a triumph anyway. "This vote," he cried, "is shaking the eyeteeth of the liberals in both parties...