Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrial management, too, Red China's rulers have underdone by overdoing. In 1958 Peking boasted that the nation's steel production had jumped 100% to a whopping (for Asia) 11 million tons. But late last month came a laconic announcement that construction of all new railway lines planned for 1959 would have to be postponed. The reason: a shortage of steel rails...
...East, 19th century Christian missionaries tried to win the heathen with the hymn-huffing harmonium. Now from West German Protestant Theologian Ernst Benz comes an attack on the meek little organ as an instrument of "tyranny and dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of Christian music in Asia. Some rebellious young Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must arise," says...
Little is known about the Etruscans, a talented, highly civilized people who ruled Rome from about 600 B.C. to 500 B.C. The Etruscan written language has not been deciphered, and even the origin of the people, supposedly in Asia Minor, is known from tradition only. The Romans took over much of their culture but were ostentatiously shocked by their sexual customs, e.g., Etruscans sometimes made love at the dinner table, and young girls earned their dowries by prostitution...
...Cancer of the mouth and pharynx, rare in the West as compared with cancer elsewhere in the body, is far commoner, both absolutely and proportionately, in Southeast Asia...
...most securely rooted leaders in Southeast Asia have quit their prime ministries-the better to secure their leadership...