Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ambassadorial Mission. The two major omissions from his impressive roster (see box) are Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, neither of whom likes to be shown with other artists. Otherwise, the collection is as comprehensive a view of American art today as can be found. It ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views...
...went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took off for the first leg of an 11,700-mile flight to South Viet Nam-where the men of the U.S. Air Force's "Operation Jungle Jim" are carrying out a mission that seems almost anachronistic in a supersonic, missile-oriented world...
Within two months. Jungle Jim was off the ground, rounding up men and air planes. Each volunteer undergoes three separate psychological interviews, a check of his family situation to make sure he can leave for a risky mission on short notice, and a grueling 21-day survival course at Nevada's Stead Air Force Base. Each officer and airman of the Air Commandos must know how to do every job in the outfit. The aircraft are picked with equal care for reliability and ease of repair under primitive conditions. The T-28s fly slowly (top speed: 346 m.p.h...
...Days. There was nothing perfunctory about Rusk's mission to Bonn where crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer needed some buttering up after his angry May quarrel with Washington over the negotiations with Russia. Rusk fairly smothered der Alte with kind words. "You never heard such flattery." said one witness at the first meeting. Over dinner in the Palais Schaumburg's chandeliered Grosse Kabinettssaal, Rusk softened Adenauer with long reminiscences of his graduate student days in Berlin 30 years ago, of tours in the Rhineland, of the Weimar era. As the wine and champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast...
...doctrinally conservative, fast growing (2,500,000 members) Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Historically wary of cooperating with church groups that do not share its theological views, the Missouri Synod has never joined the National Lutheran Council-the service organization that coordinates such matters as public relations, welfare and mission activities for most of the nation's other Lutheran groups...