Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a long inquiry through the European under-world, van Stratten discovers the criminal background of Arkadin's wealth. He finds, in addition, the real purpose of his mission. The financier, in a mad attempt to hide his past from Raina, wants to eliminate members of his former gang. Soon the investigator becomes the only person left in the way of Arkadin's ambition. Here Welles loses the chance for a dramatically effective ending by killing off Arkadin in a unrealistic...
Aldoshin, who was a member of the disarmament conference last summer, and Vladimir Brykin, senior political advisor to the USSR mission to the United Nations, presented the official Soviet position on the major issues of the General Assembly's XVIIth session in a discussion sponsored by the international Relations Council...
...angry Air Force general had a few words for the Army: "They're after our mission-and they're just using this air-mobility line...
...months of delicate negotiations in Warsaw, Poland at last dropped its tough demands, and the two sides signed their first long-term trade agreement, a threeyear, $650 million pact exchanging West German machinery and metals for Polish meat, fruit and dairy products. West Germany will send a permanent trade mission to Warsaw, its first permanent outpost in a Soviet satellite land. Bonn officials clearly feel the way is open for similar deals with Hungary and Czechoslovakia...
...such as lachrymator, ecdysize, catasta, edacious and vibrissae,* Filmore's wide-eyed discovery that stone walls do not a prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor. When his rollicking stay behind bars is ended by an untimely parole, Filmore promptly holds up a Salvation Army Mission and steals the collection box in order to speed his return to dear old Audton-and (misspelled?) Goad...