Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most closely watched mission was the five-day sojourn in Cambodia by U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles. It was also the most surrealistic. Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, worried that the Viet Nam war might spread into his country, asked the U.S. to send an emissary. Then, on the eve of Bowles's arrival, he executed one of his more spectacular volte-faces by declaring that the ambassador would be better off visiting the ruins of Angkor Wat than talking...
Bottoms & Boots. In a rambling press conference, Sihanouk made the elaborate claim that the U.S. had vainly attempted to soft-soap him last November by sending Jacqueline Kennedy over on a sub rosa diplomatic mission. "Chester Bowles is going to try to succeed where Mrs. Kennedy failed," Sihanouk declared. "But Chester Bowles, no matter how he smiles, does not have and never will have the seductive effect of Mrs. Kennedy. He will go home empty-handed." For good measure, Sihanouk added: "I do not want to lose my dignity, I do not want to lick the bottom and boots...
...principal mission of the private foundation is to take its resources where neither Government, which must consider the taxpayer, nor private business, which must account to the stockholder, dare go. Foundations should provide the risk capital of philanthropy, acting as the pioneers pushing forward into the future...
...searchlight back and forth like a baleful eye, it spotted a smooth black surface below. Touching down gently, it began to creep along on wheels, stopping occasionally to pick up chunks of black rock with its two 9-ft. arms. Finally, it slowly rose to the surface, its mission accomplished and its curiosity temporarily satisfied...
...course foreigners always have trouble fitting into an alien culture: they stick together, criticize their hosts. And foreigners whose mission is to help (rather than to learn, to work, or simply enjoy themselves) tend to be particularly contemptuous of natives who do not seem eager to use the particular services they have to offer...