Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where Is My Son?" The pay was good. Shamburger, as a pilot, got about $2,100 a month; the others received $1,900. The four Alabamans left their homes in mid-January, telling their families that their mission was secret. In proper cloak-and-dagger style, their mail was sent and received through a general-delivery box in Chicago. Most of them returned to Birmingham only once, for a single day in March. The next month came the invasion. According to Mansfield, the four volunteered to replace exhausted Cuban pilots during the Bay of Pigs struggle, and were killed when...
...when Sputnik I beeped around the earth, jolting the U.S. out of its scientific complacency, Pickering was already in command at JPL. The lab wasted no time in mourning the national setback, for the crisis brought a happy change in its mission. Before Sputnik, it had largely been concerned with military missiles, now it became the scientific center of an invigorated U.S. space campaign. In only 83 days, JPL quickly modified a test rocket, the Jupiter C, and tossed Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, into Earth orbit...
Such evenings leave audiences aglow with delight and thundering applause, and Wolfgang basking in a sense of his mission. "We have found a new way of presenting organ music," he said, steering his van down the empty Autobahn. "My shop has become just a hobby; music is now my profession...
Tighter Controls. From Ford Beck brought a team of eight topflight executives, installed them in key jobs, and began to overhaul the company. Philco's research division, which had been competing with other Philco divisions for Government contracts, was given a mission to help other divisions. Two separate divisions that had been engaged in weapons and communications work were consolidated. And the almost autonomous departments within the consumer products division were eliminated to cut out overlapping activities. Beck also introduced Detroit-style cost accounting to keep close watch on production costs. His efforts produced results: manufacturing efficiency last year...
Garrison emerges from this biography as a classic case of the closed mind. He was so sure of his divine mission that he never bothered to sort out his ideas. Consequently, he was always contradicting himself without noticing it. He oscillated between extreme positions, never coming to rest at a practical one. Before the Civil War, he was an all-out pacifist; once it began, he was hell-bent on the destruction of the South. At a time when Utopian nostrums were the fad, Garrison fell for them all: religious perfectionism, phrenology, Graham bread (as a cure for neuroses), water...