Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past ten months, while traveling through nearly every corner of non-Communist Asia and some parts of the Middle East, I was truly delighted to find TIME almost everywhere I went, even in such places as Surabaya or Djakarta, Indonesia, and Pnompenh, Cambodia. Not infrequently, TIME was the only link I felt with the world outside the village or area in which I found myself. In addition, I was happily surprised to note the number of nationals in every Asian country who speak English and read TIME. In South Korea, where I served with U.S. Army intelligence...
...queried its correspondents in Karachi and New Delhi. In Washington, TIME'S reporters tapped the State Department and the visiting delegation, and dogged the public as well as private movements of the guest. Results of this study of the man who represents the stoutest U.S. ally in South Asia are reported in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Pakistan's Premier...
...Swiveling his busy 16-mm. movie camera as he tours the U.S. this week: Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, 63, Western-minded Premier of Pakistan (pop. 80 million), the U.S.'s stoutest ally in South Asia...
...wild and woolly past has caused many an official frown. Grumped one Australian government official: "It is a pity that Australia should be represented in a modern art museum by a criminal." But Nolan, who keeps returning to the Kelly theme on his painting trips through southeast Asia and Europe, maintains, "Kelly was the one genuine Australian hero-even if Australians are ashamed to admit...
Pearl S. Buck is still presiding over her China with the air of a lady dispensing oolong from a rare porcelain tea service. In her 43rd book, she subdues the storm over Asia to the dimensions of one of her teacups. The conflict between Communist China and the West is symbolized by the MacLeods of Raleigh, Vt. Gerald MacLeod, although not a Communist, lives in Peking and is president of its Communist-run university. Wife Elizabeth MacLeod lives in Vermont with their son Rennie and her father-in-law. Old Mr. MacLeod, who was once adviser to the Boy Emperor...