Word: sions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essay, Lessing uses ancient and medieval Christian art-much of it unfamiliar Middle Eastern illuminations, mosaics and sculptures, all of it superbly reproduced in color. But the real eye-stoppers are the photographs of places where Jesus may have walked, such as the ancient stone steps leading to Mount Sion, which, says Lessing, Jesus probably used on the night of the Last Supper; and Jerusalem's 2,700-year-old Pool of Siloam, where, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus sent a blind man to bathe-and thereby restored his sight...
...American enthusiasm for doing business with the Soviets. The purpose of Stans' "fact-finding" trip was to find out in general ways what the Soviets want from the U.S. and are prepared to give in return. In an excursion arranged months before Stans' mis sion last week, 90 U.S. executives were in Moscow conferring with Soviet trade officials and industrial managers. Said William J. Barton, vice president of Business International, the research firm that sponsored the Moscow expedition: "There's a real thaw-you can almost hear the ice cracking...
Boll, on the other hand, said, "The whole problem is whether it's discriminatory for a private non-profit organization to be under the Commis-sion's jurisdiction." He added that he had information that Paul was not officially an alumna because she had not filed out forms after her one-year program that would have listed her among the alumni...
Families on public welfare in the Mis-sion Hill section of Roxbury, a section of Boston, are also covered by the plan. Their participation enabled the plan to receive a grant of $550,000 from the Public Health Service. The grant allows the plan to subsidize on a sliding scale basis premium payments for low-income families...
...with little-known names. From the major powers, the only leaders scheduled to show were Richard Nixon and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. East bloc representation suffered from a domino sequence of dropouts. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin had been known to be anxious to attend the ses sion, presumably to add new thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia quickly followed suit by dispatching their foreign ministers. That left...