Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retirement of wide-traveling Secretary of State Dulles was almost certain to focus more attention on the Administration's other veteran of the diplomatic travelers' society: Vice President Richard Nixon, who has served as the President's effective personal ambassador in Asia (1956), Africa (1957), Latin America (1958) and Britain (1958). Last week President Eisenhower sharpened the focus by announcing that Nixon and wife Pat will go to Russia for three or four days in July to officiate at the opening of the $5,000,000 American National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park (TIME...
...Attempted "new approaches" to the surging neutralist nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, but failed-over the short run-to convince them that there could be no neutralism in a universal struggle, was less effective in handling crises in which Communism was not directly involved, e.g., his blow-hot, blow-cold performance on U.S. help for Egypt's Aswan...
...President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively, threw U.S. support to a shaky new Nationalist government in South Viet Nam, helped negotiate and set up a brand new Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ("Pactomania," said the critics) that has faced up to Communism in Southeast Asia ever since...
...folding seats. At C-hour-minus-30 minutes, the national flags of Viet Nam and the U.S. were in place. As the darkness gathered, the men of the orchestra took their places, and promptly at 8 p.m. the conductor raised his baton. Moments later one more corner of Asia was introduced to the strange and wondrous sounds of a live Western symphony orchestra. Occasion: a first concert in Saigon, Viet Nam, by Manhattan's touring Little Orchestra Society...
...500th anniversary of Buddha's birth by posing such questions as "Does the accomplishment of sunya [nothingness] depend on pratityasamutpada [cause and effect]?" The Anglicans held a more down-to-earth meeting. There were speeches on the benefits of atomic energy and discussions of the Communist menace to Asia. But the high point of the meeting was the Communion service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher...