Word: missions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undisguised relief that he began his new assignment last week as TIME White House correspondent. His first scheduled trip late this month with the President: to Elk City, Okla., a place that Carter promised to revisit if he were elected. Only hours later, however, the President announced his peace mission to Egypt and Israel, and off went Ogden to the Middle East once again. Ogden welcomed the Carter journey as easier to cover than the Camp David summit meeting last September. "At least now," he reported from Cairo, "the principals and their aides are not locked up in seclusion behind...
Winter navigation on the Great Lakes, besides making tedious and costly work for Coast Guard icebreakers, is a highly touchy issue. The Mac's mission is part of a seven-year, $27 million experimental program, now in its last year, to determine whether or not winter navigation is practical. The folks in the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, believe it is. Giant ore boats now cost $50 million to build, and the industry wants to use them all year for a better return on its money. Year-round navigation also provides a steadier flow of taconite to steel...
...there were more important reasons for Carter's decision. Despite the risk that the mission's failure could further erode the President's image as an effective global leader, there was a pressing need to take some bold international action to reassure America's friends and allies of Washington's determination to protect its interests. An editorial in a Beirut paper speculated that the U.S. was fast becoming a "super nonpower" in the Middle East. Much more worrisome to the Administration was the degree to which Saudi Arabia seemed to be reassessing its close
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government, said yesterday Bok's statement is "excellent" because it identifies a "higher morality that entails Harvard's higher mission"--the pursuit of knowledge...
Lest we forget the 17-0 and 14-3 sandblastings at the sticks of the Lady Friars, Harvard was impressive, especially defensively, where backliners Julie Starr, Alison Bell and Anna Jones, and forwards Tania Huber and Lauren Norton killed off five penalties and thwarted many an NU bombing mission...