Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven weeks in Indian cities would present a barren picture. But the heart of India is in the villages. There, Community Development, the most powerful answer to revolutionaries in Asia, is itself achieving a revolution of rising hopes...
...Gibb has spent extended periods in the Near East," Thomson continued. "He has contributed outstanding books to the field." These include "The Arab Conquests in Central Asia," "Mohammedanism," and the "The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades." He is also the editor of the completely revised edition of the "Encyclopedia of Islam," sponsored by UNESCO...
Early this year, Aneurin Bevan, the Labor Party's aging Young Turk, decided that the time had come to stake his ambitions on what seemed to be two surefire issues. He challenged the Labor Party's leadership by opposing 1) West German rearmament, 2 ) a Southeast Asia pact. To dramatize his rebellion, he resigned from Labor's "Shadow Cabinet," gave up his front seat on the Opposition benches and retreated bulkily to the "Mountain," the backest back bench in the House of Commons, to await the showdown...
...incredible good fortune to land in Peking, where the Union Medical College had an iron lung-probably the only one in all Asia at the time. But thereafter, young Fred could never draw a carefree breath for fear that the machine that breathed for him might fail. And there was no hope of substantial recovery. His neck, back and arms were paralyzed; so were his chest and abdominal muscles. His left leg was 90% paralyzed; in his right he had a little movement...
...Edward Clark Carter, 76, secretary-general of the Institute of Pacific Relations during the turbulent '30s and '40s when it numbered among its staff such controversial left-wingers as Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Professor Owen Lattimore; in Manhattan. An early proponent of better U.S. understanding of Asia (and the wartime head of Russian War Relief), Carter denied during a 1951 Senate investigation that he was or had ever been a Communist, testified that the I.P.R. had rejected suggestions by Lattimore in the late '30s that it support Communism in China and Russia...