Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founded by the Blessed Gerard in Jerusalem in the 11th century to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order has returned to a mission close to its original calling. The knights support a worldwide program of medical aid and refugee relief that extends to 42 countries. Of some 8,000 members, only 40 take the order's religious vows...
...seeds of violence are nurtured through the public's air waves," CBS President Frank Stanton wired the chairman to pledge cooperation "in every way possible." At the same time CBS, which has more flying vice presidents than nuns, dispatched Michael Dann, senior V.P. for programming, to Hollywood. His mission: "individual conferences with producers and writers to discuss specific measures to de-emphasize violence in programs now in production." ABC President Leonard Goldenson disclosed that his network, too, was in the throes of reappraisal; he also designated a vice president, James Hagerty, as liaison man to the violence commission...
...cynic you. You pulverized potato, you spineless spinach, you mustachioed pistachio, who do you think you are? What gives you the right, let me see your papers, who gave you permission, where is your petition, you have no commission, I bet I know your mission. It's an ill wind brings you into town, and now with your new gown I guess it's legal...
Aspen is assembled by Phyllis Johnson, who once taught at a mission school on a Navajo reservation and later was intimate-apparel editor of Women's Wear Daily. She got the idea for her project while ski-bumming one winter at Aspen; her fellow vacationers, she felt, were ready to enjoy "culture along with play." So in early 1966, she produced her first issue to meet their desires. Today, some 20,000 subscribers receive Aspen at $4 per box, and Mrs. Johnson just about breaks even...
...honed his boyhood interest in aviation as a Navy pilot during World War I, New Jersey-born Trippe ruled his airline with a firm hand. After establishing Pan Am as the first carrier to offer regular international service, he engaged in what amounted to a one-man diplomatic mission in order to negotiate landing rights in South America. In the 1930s, with his line's South American routes already well established, he became the first to introduce scheduled airline service across both the Pacific and the Atlantic. Under Trippe's innovative direction, Pan Am was also the first...