Word: balis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) falls in love Some Enchanted Evening with a middle-aged French planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill around on the beach, shouting that There Is Nothing Like a Dame. But the picture spends most of its time with the nurse, who tells herself that I'm Gonna Wash That...
From his father, Sukarno learned the Moslem faith and the seeds of nationalism; from his mother, the long cycle of Hindu epics that have sustained Bali in its centuries-old resistance to the Mohammedanism of the surrounding islands...
...After collecting a bet on the winning gelding Bali Ha'i at a race in Auckland, N.Z., Britain's touring Queen Mother Elizabeth got an even more pleasant surprise. When she presented a gold cup to Owner Sir Ernest Davis, Sir Ernest announced: "We have with us the greatest lady in the world. I want to present Bali Ha'i to her on behalf of the sporting public of New Zealand...
...Sumual was officially invited only as the delegate of "North Celebes," but after the conference opened, he stated his position with blunt and studied nonchalance. Said he pointedly: "I speak for East Indonesia." Chairman Djuanda interrupted. "Have you the consent of other East Indonesian areas [i.e., the Moluccas and Bali]?" "Yes," snapped Sumual, then launched into a vigorous attack against central government corruption...
East Indonesia's 12 million inhabitants have long been hostile to the "Java-centric" government in Djakarta. A sprawling collection of islands which includes Celebes, the Moluccas and fabled Bali, East Indonesia has spawned half a dozen revolutionary movements-among them the fanatically Moslem Darul Islam and the so-called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian...