Word: asceticism
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In Laos last week 600 schoolchildren wearing white shirts and black berets marched through the puddled streets of Vientiane in the first "antivice" drive in Laotian history. They carried "good'' banners, hailing the three Rs of "Revolution, Roads and Rice,'' and "bad'' banners condemning...
South Viet Nam, under President Ngo Dinh Diem, an ascetic Roman Catholic, four years ago closed down its opium dens, which had been legal throughout the years of French rule, and shut up some of the fanciest whorehouses in the Far East. So successful has the government been that there...
C.R. has also won support from a man nearly as prominent, and as much of a brooding Hamlet, as Nehru himself: Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, who spent seven years in the U.S., going to college, waiting on tables, working in the stockyards. A onetime agitator and terrorist for Indian independence who...
The two brigadiers belong to a familiar breed in the Moslem world. Like Egypt's Nasser and Iraq's Kassem, they are ascetic young soldiers resentful of corrupt old ways, antagonistic to the West, and impatient for change. In early March the two, Abdel-Rahim Mohammed Kheir Shennan...
For a quarter of a century ascetic Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar has slaved 18 hours a day, six days a week, giving the Portuguese the sternly ordered rule he thinks best for them. The least the little economics professor expected in return was public admiration, and for a surprisingly...