Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early Exposure. As Hubert Humphrey ended a two-week visit to Europe last week, Nixon, continuing his world tour, began a month-long swing through Asia. Romney-at last-discussed Viet Nam in Connecticut, and Illinois' Republican Senator Charles H. Percy addressed party workers in New Hampshire. California's Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, in office just 100 days as of this week, has already paid three visits to Washington. President Johnson, only recently back from Guam, heads off this week to the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este for a meeting with Latin American heads of state...
...four services-Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force-are flying thin. Though there are pilots enough to fill every cockpit in Southeast Asia, the same cannot be said throughout the rest of the world. Marine Corps Commandant Wallace Greene last month told the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee that his service is now 851 aviators short and by 1968 will be 1,021 pilots in the hole; Chief of Naval Operations David McDonald admits to "urgent pilot needs"; Air Force Chief of Staff J. P. McConnell worries about the "down ward trend" in pilot retention. The Army, whose 3,800 helicopter...
...contributes $150,000 a year to support I.V.S., its basic funding-about $1.5 million annually-comes from the U.S. AID. From this, the two-year volunteers receive $80 a month-less than the salary of an Army private-plus a small clothing and vacation allowance. After negotiations with the Asia Foundation for $2,000 to build a summer school and buy books for the Vietnamese, l.V.S.ers voted down the grant when it was disclosed that the foundation had received funds from...
...Cameron Highlands of Malaysia, 140 miles north of Kuala Lumpur at an elevation of 5,000 ft., is one of Southeast Asia's most fetching health resorts. Its climate is mild by day and cool by night, and its lush vegetation includes thick jungles, clouds of brilliant flowers and mile after mile of tea plantations. There last week on vacation went one of Southeast Asia's best-known businessmen, American James Thompson, 61. Tired from a round of business, which included the opening in Bangkok three weeks ago of a new, two-story headquarters for his $1.5 million...
Seven Teak Houses. The scope and intensity of last week's search showed the respect and affection that Southeast Asia felt for Jim Thompson. A Princetonian from Greenville, Del., Thompson was an architect when World War II began. He went to Asia as an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, liked the area so well that he stayed on when the war ended. Fascinated by the silk spinners he saw when traveling in rural Thailand, he collected samples of their work in a suitcase, brought them to New York and persuaded fashion designers to use them. He went...