Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney General Bobby Kennedy last week ran the civil rights gauntlet, got flogged from both sides, and emerged scarred-but still in better shape than anyone might have expected when he started. The occasion was Bobby's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, where his unhappy mission was to urge members to water down a civil rights bill so that it might have a practical chance of passing the whole House...
...same time, the regime stepped up its anti-American campaign with the charge that U.S. pilots had airlifted Moroccan troops to the border. Despite U.S. official denials, the accusation seemed at least partially accurate. Four days before the fighting broke put, pilots of the U.S. Air Force training mission in Morocco ferried troops in six C-119s and C-47s to Marrakech, 300 miles from the frontier. Belatedly realizing that a border war was in the making, the U.S. hastily ended the operation...
Until recently, the ancient dam was a wreck, but the rest of the extraordinary system is still in good condition. The tunnel needs nothing but cleaning out. Last week repairs were well under way, guided by Engineer Oliver Fulsom of the U.S. Water Control Mission. The dam is rising once more and will eventually look just about as it did 2,000 years ago. No major improvements are contemplated; the ancient Nabataeans had thought of everything...
President Craig, 54, is a man with a self-imposed mission: to improve the layman's understanding of law and lawyers. "People are shy of the law and shy of lawyers," he says. "There always has to be a loser in the courtroom, and that means there is a built-in disappointment connected with the law." What is called for, he thinks, is "education as to the fundamentals, the historic principles of American government, so that people can develop an understanding of how the laws came about...
...sharpest battle in U.S. banking has been fired up by handsome James J. Saxon, 49, who as Comptroller of the Currency supervises the 4,500 nationally chartered banks. "The commercial banking system needs rescuing," says Saxon grandly-and he has set out on what he considers a rescue mission by permitting national banks to branch out more freely than state banks, which are regulated by state banking commissions. By liberalizing branching policies, he aims to break the hold that many small-town and suburban bankers have on their areas. Critical state bankers charge that Saxon's expansion plans would...