Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the addition of West Germany to the program brings the total of Fulbright nations to 30. In last year's cuts, the most severe curtailments were made in the number of students coming to the United States from Latin America and Asia...
...generation feels (usually correctly) that the next generation will live much as it lives. The life of the father is exposed to the son in daily living. This is supplemented by training in the etiquette of specific situations in which the son is sure to find himself. All of Asia has been trained in this way-and all of Europe was, down to the Renaissance-Reformation period. Then, in Western Europe, complex and interdependent factors-population growth, technological progress, the replacement of the feudal system with more fluid social forms, the new lands across the sea-made tradition-direction obsolete...
...FIVE SEASONS by Karl Eska (344 pp.; Viking; $3.95) was written out of his wartime experience in Soviet Asia by an anti-Nazi Austrian, who is using a pseudonym for this work. The fifth season of the title is famine - a famine brought on by the blunders of Russian planners in the Turkmen republic and made more terrible by the party's refusal to recognize its existence. The Reds keep parroting, "No one in this country goes hungry." As bodies pile up in the streets, the bosses try to explain them away as caused by typhus and by neglecting...
...Nehru's angry view, that was what the U.S. and its partners were trying to do by signing the Manila Pact, which is another significant challenge to Nehru's claim to be the Voice of Asia. The Manila treaty, complained Nehru, is forcing protection on "countries that do not want to be protected...
...opposing the governments of the countries concerned." When the vote was taken, the Russian proposal lost by 671 votes to 366. With Russia put in its place, the congress got down to other business. It voted to concentrate on setting up cooperatives in five regions-the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa below the Sahara, the Caribbean and parts of South America-and to set up an international fund to finance the work...