Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commend your magazine for trying to focus our attention on Asia. Truman has relieved MacArthur of all his posts. The general purposely sacrificed himself, to focus attention on the desperate need out there. I hope many millions more will join me in a fervent prayer that at the next election, the commander in chief be relieved of all his duties. Two years more may be too late, however...
...Falcon Studio keep their patterns somewhat tied to the news. When she saw Artist Boris Artzy-basheff's cover picture of Siam's King Phumiphon last year, she thought it offered a good way to keep her lines related to the increased news on Southeast Asia. So the cover's little men with lanterns, its tiny half-moons and mystic squibbles, became part of a maroon-blue-white design. When a researcher went to buy a TIME tie, she found only one left in stock...
Global. In his first ten minutes, he disarmed critics who accused him of ignoring Europe, or of wanting to reimpose a discredited past upon Asia. "The issues are global," he said, "and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector oblivious to those of another is to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is com- monly referred to as the gateway to Eu rope, it is no less true that Europe is the gateway to Asia . . . There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts ... I can think of no greater expression...
MacArthur swung a majestic glance backward at Asia's past. "The peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colo- nialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity . . . This is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped...
Movins said evidence of equally ancient human existence has been unearthed in Europe but never before in Asia. Coon's assertion that the fossil dates back to the third interglacial period still has to be substantiated by geologists, Movius pointed...