Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ghettos. In their idealistic zeal the pioneers of the new Zion tilled the desert and made it blossom like Isaiah's rose, filled the cities with factories until they hummed like Ezekiel's wheel. In the first decade of independence they brought 915,000 immigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa in a visionary "Ingathering of the Exiles" that more than doubled the tiny republic's population, and made it a dynamic and orderly body politic in sharp contrast with its Arab neighbors...
...Greeks moved deep into the Persian Empire (see map) when Cyros, the Persian governor of Asia Minor, hired 12,900 of them to help overthrow his brother. King Artaxerxes. They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon. After Cyros was killed by a javelin, his native troops fled the field, leaving the Greeks surrounded. To make matters worse, the Persians slew the Greek commanders by treachery...
They then consider the development of primitive cultures, not only in the general terms of the technology and social organization of paleolithic and neolithic cultures, but also by examining a few specific societies, like the Aranda of Australia, the Hopi, the Kazakhs of Central Asia, the Haida Indians off the West Coast of Canada, the Ganda of Uganda and finally the Inca. They consider in a fairly sophisticated manner just what makes a civilization, and how the primitive forms developed...
...retiring four-star Admiral five-year CINCPAC Felix Budwell Stump, 63, veteran of Leyte Gulf (1944), Indo-China (1954), Quemoy-Matsu (1954-55), and Indonesia (1958), was again the legacy of a big moment. "If the U.S. fails to take a strong position," said Admiral Stump, "all Asia will surely regard us as a subbreed of paper tiger with no guts, claws or teeth...
...sometimes easier to get a message from the moon than from Laos. Tucked in the jungle fastnesses of Southeast Asia, Laos has no telephone communication with the outside world; telegraph messages tend to run as late as 48 hours; the U.S. aid mission in the capital city of Vientiane (pop. 25,000) has a radiotelephone link with the U.S. aid mission in Bangkok, Thailand, but during the monsoon season, as now, messages are static-ridden and fragmentary...