Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other issue growing out of the Dow incident was that you wished Harvard to close its doors to Army, Navy, and CIA recruiters. That is not the function of Harvard. Its mission is to present to you the choices available or to give to you enough information (total in scope) out of the cultural context of mankind so as to make enlightened action possible. Then it is up to you to choose your course of action toward recruiters...
Next day, however, Hanoi's Paris mission took the next step itself and issued a statement labeling Redmont's report a "pure invention." The only truth in it, said the statement, was that "conversations"-not peace talks-will take place if the bombings stop. Apparently, Hanoi's man in Paris had been carried away by his own rhetoric and had told Redmont more than his government thought prudent...
Communication by String. In Viet Nam, the Seals' primary missions are reconnaissance and demolition, and their principal weapons stealth, surprise-and patience. Last week TIME's Glenn Troelstrup became the first newsman in Viet Nam permitted to accompany a Seal team on a mission. Dropped by Navy river patrol boats deep into Viet Cong country southeast of Saigon in the swampy mangrove sector of Rung Sat, the Seals set up an ambush beside a small stream. There, for 14 long hours, they froze in position, hip-deep in mud, clad in camouflage suits and bush hats, their faces...
...Joan is an immense credibility gap. At the heart of the play is a simple country maid who hears what she believes to be divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
...says, "and of what it's supposed to be, to give it a sense of its mission. This job is almost a kind of evangelism...