Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the specifics, Madame Ky was only one of the tens of thousands of Asian women who flock every year to plastic surgeons to make themselves "more charming" to their husbands and boy friends-or even to get ahead in the business world. "These days," says Dr. Jiro Minagawa, who heads Tokyo's plush Minagawa Cosmetic Clinic, "girls come in and go out much as they go to the beauty salon to have their hair done." Dr. Pham Ba Vien, dean of Saigon's practitioners of chirurgie esthétique, agrees. "Show a woman something different...
...Abominably Dishonest." The danger was that Britain might lose control of the punishment. Now that the matter had been hauled to the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations were demanding far tougher measures against Rhodesia. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie called for troops to throw out the Smith regime. Zambian Foreign Minister Simon Kapwepwe took the floor of the Security Council to rage that Britain was "abominably dishonest, wicked, hypocritical and racist." He demanded a total economic blockade against Rhodesia and any nation that dared trade with...
...perches like a nervous hummingbird on the long southeastern rim of Communist China - 61 sq. mi. of uneasy Portuguese suzerainty in a teeming, tumultuous Asian world. This is fabled Macao, a sleepy city of sin, smuggling and games of chance, which, like nearby Hong Kong, is tolerated by Peking mainly as a handy source of hard currency. Thus its 300,000 people live in the knowledge that they might at any time be engulfed by their giant neighbor. "When China breathes," goes one old Macao saying, "we tremble." Last week China breathed, and the tremble was almost seismic...
...today there are signs everywhere that monarchy is far from obsolete. Spain is preparing to restore its royal house as a way of assuring political stability. In many Asian and African countries, the monarch alone provides a sense of cohesion, without which they would be torn apart by old animosities and new social forces. This is true even of some European nations. Certainly today's rulers have serious problems. Greece's young King Constantine is at loggerheads with the politicians in a country where politics is played like karate (a sport at which Constantine excels). Jordan...
...faculty numbers 61, three-fourths of them Ph.D.s earning an average of $12,549 a year. Under the guidance of Bevan, who became dean, the school developed a liberal-arts curriculum anchored to a four-year core program focusing in successive years on world developments, Western civilization, Asian culture and the Christian heritage. The objective of the core program and its related science, language and elective courses is to form students who can make knowledgeable value judgments within the broad framework of Christian ethics-students who can find answers to the central questions of a liberal-arts education...