Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irrepressible Rosalind Russell is gallivanting around with a bunch of goats in her latest comedy. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. Roz plays the part of a gadabout middle-aged American tourist who leads a double life as a CIA courier carrying secret microfilm. Nabbed by Communist agents on one such mission, she escapes by hiding among a herd of goats. The animals, mostly pets of children in Wyoming where the scene was shot, proved to be unruly hams before the camera. Said the slightly battered actress afterward: "I've been butted around before in Hollywood and on Broadway -but never...
...lady I will call Joan Adkins lives in Mission Hills. On her color television set is a bowl of water with a statuette of Jesus submerged in it. She turns out to be the extreme in the antismog movement. "The smog here is very bad," she tells me. "I've been fighting it for twelve years. I have to put cream in my nasal passages, but sometimes my nose swells up anyway, and I chew gum. They say that helps. And I have to keep washing out my eyes. You know, they say that smog can affect your mental outlook...
Officially, Paradise opened for business in July, 1769, when Father Junípero Serra, alias Charlton Heston, planted the Cross at San Diego, establishing California's first mission. This year the state is celebrating its bicentennial with dutiful if lackluster civic ceremonies. Fortunately, perhaps, most Californians are too busy having fun to pause for renditions of their state song...
...read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence, and the difficulties of modern communication, this book is undoubtedly meant to be received as an Epic for Our Time...
...issues of government involvement are raised in heightened form by the Center's Development Advisory Service, whose primary mission is advice and secondary function is research. The DAS goes to considerable lengths to avoid both the substance and the appearance of U.S. government influence by refusing U.S. government support for its advisory groups and recruiting half its advisors abroad. Whatever the limitations to its advice, they do not stem from particular dogmas nor from solicitude for U.S. interests. In fact, the services of the Harvard Advisory Service are in demand from a variety of governments largely because it is known...