Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...council passed the resolution authorizing Hammarskjold to send military aid. At 3:30, Hammarskjold was in his office and set to work. Phones started jangling in foreign offices all around the world...
Dense Air. Among the early loads were dismantled U.S. Army helicopters and a couple of seven-passenger de Havilland Beavers. Assembled in a matter of hours, they were set to work under the command of Lieut. Colonel Jerome B. Feldt of Kansas, flying into the bush to pick up handfuls of isolated missionaries...
...Beavers and a DC-3 borrowed from the U.S. embassy in South Africa. The choppers usually went out loaded with fuel drums, and refueled when necessary-sometimes in the air. Only navigational aids available were ancient and outdated road maps, which were so inadequate that pilots sometimes had to set down in a village and ask for directions. Congolese guides were little help; from a few hundred feet up, the familiar jungle looked utterly strange to them...
...briskly vetoed an anti-graft bill that made it a crime for the wife, or any other near relative of the President, Vice President or other top officials to "intervene directly or indirectly" in any transaction with the government. But Garcia controls Nacionalista Party purse strings, pressured Congress to set up a committee to investigate Osmeňa's accusations...
Bishop McManus, 59, who arrived in Puerto Rico as a missionary in 1929, became bishop in 1947. Two years later he denounced overpopulated Puerto Rico's legalization of birth control. Bishop McManus is also sad set against a Puerto Rican law that divorces couples who have been separated for three years, and against sterilization of women, a relatively simple procedure in public hospitals...