Word: missions
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This psychologist's concern for controls made Boring uncomfortable at Harvard, for the psychologists were still in a department dominated by philosophers. The discomfort was also a challenge: Boring felt a "mission to rescue Harvard psychology from the philosophers." Though he eventually saved psychology from the philosophers by bisecting the department, he recalls that he never reformed the philosophers. "At the party celebrating the separation of the psychology and philosophy departments, I said, as usual, that psychology needs controls. Whitehead made a delightful little speech: 'They devote their lives to studying the human mind and still they don't trust...
Solo at Sixteen. But Cooper's doubters missed a central point. Aimless as he may sometimes seem on earth, he is a man with a mission-"to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster." Explains a close friend: "All Gordon Cooper is, is a pilot. He's a good one and a smart one, and that's all he wants...
...basic mission of the Special Forces, however, is to teach rather than to fight. This they are doing abroad with little publicity. Last year they sent 63 teams into 15 Castro-shadowed Latin American nations, instructed 3,415 foreign soldiers. In Venezuela, for example, they ran some 1,500 Guardia National security forces through jungle courses in which silhouettes sprang from trees at trainees, who learned to pump at least two rifle shots into the figures within five seconds...
...Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, a crew financed by mighty Joe Levine is making Zulu. It concerns an incident which was a kind of Alamo in reverse-on Jan. 22, 1879, some 130 British soldiers stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with...
ABOARD THE U.S.S. KEARSARGE, May 16--Maj. I. Gordon Cooper completed his 22-or bit space mission today, despite an electrical failure in his spaceship Faith 7 during the final orbits. Cooper landed in the Pacific at 6:24 1/2 p.m. (EST), only a minute and a half off schedule. By 7:11 he had stopped aboard the flight deck of this rescue ship-carrier...