Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Business & Pleasure. Chinese Cholon, which means "Great Market," is a six-sq.-mi. enclave of Asian enterprise. In its sprawling, pagodalike marketplace, hunks of meat hang in bloody rows under swarms of flies; withered crones stir their black iron stewpots with k'uai-tzu (chopsticks) while spidery men stagger past under shoulder poles bending to the weight of oil and rice-wine buckets. Over all beats the cacophony of commerce: the steamy hiss of sidewalk cooking kiosks, the piping cry of the noodle vendors, the clash of cymbals advertising the approach of the blind Chinese masseurs who ply their...
...concern will crystalize into outright opposition to American goals or tactics. He finds Wilson's support for the President's position "sincere" and thinks that neither the Prime Minister's increased prestige nor England's increased solvency will tempt the Labor front bench to break with Washington on Southeast Asian policy. Harlech discounts the possibility that a left-wing revolt in the Labor Party will soon force Wilson's hand. No more than thirty MP's would back such a revolt, Harlech estimates, and Wilson enjoys a majority...
...tree shrew is a small animal which some consider to be a primate. This Southeast Asian creature could be confused with a squirrel except for its protruding snout...
...richest industrial power tried to accomplish by friendly persuasion what it had failed to win in war: economic dominance of a huge region. Last week, amid toasts in French champagne to Oriental solidarity, Japan made its boldest move in economic diplomacy in 30 years. It invited nine Southeast Asian nations to its first postwar trade-and-aid conference and, to general surprise, minister-level delegations came from eight-Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Viet Nam and Thailand. While many guests still held grudges against Japan, the mood was summed up by Malaysia's Foreign Minister...
Signers in Dispute. All of which goes to illustrate the danger of making too much of handouts. In a letter published by the Times last week, Wm. Theodore de Bary, a member of the Association for Asian Studies and Chairman of the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University, explained that the signers are only a fraction of the association's 3,374 members. "Since it is a policy of the Association not to take a stand or conduct a vote on political questions," wrote De Bary, "no person or group can claim to represent the membership. Signers...