Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...central Java last week, several million illiterate voters punched a nail through a printed symbol representing one of 69 political parties. At day's end one symbol had the winning number of nail holes. The symbol: the hammer and sickle of the Indonesian Communist Party. The Communists had won an overwhelming victory in four key areas of Indonesia's most populous island...
Sukarno's activities have long distressed Indonesia's democratic parties, and the chaos at the center has brought army revolts all over Indonesia, largely bloodless because the local commanders want to remain loyal to the central government, if only the government would prove worth its loyalty. In Djakarta last week, distressed by Communist gains and Sukarno's methods, sat Premier Djuanda Karta-widjaja, an able administrator who has been in virtually every Indonesian Cabinet since 1949. In his first interview with a foreign correspondent since taking office, Djuanda made it quietly clear last week to TIME Correspondent...
...Robert Heizer, one of the leaders of the La Venta expedition, believes that the Olmecs' radiocarbon dates will "force a total chronological reassessment of early American history." His hope is that the shadowy Olmecs may have had other centers in Mexico or Central America, perhaps in places where the climate is not so hard on relics. A peculiar ruin at Tlatilco near Mexico City may be one of them...
...just aren't interested in loaning us money after seeing our books," says Jack Ayer of Trans-Texas Airways, which has never declared a dividend, last year netted barely $10,000 on operating revenues of $5,997,000. Almost every other feeder is in the same squeeze. When Central Airlines asked the Fort Worth National Bank for more than $2,000,000 to replace its DC-35, the bank could only take a sternly "dim view"; Central has already been to the bank 107 times since 1949, is still in the red. To buy a needed...
...solution to the problem of winning over certain Moi' tribes which had taken up a neutral position in the war with the Communist-led Viet Minh. After a workout with the colonial troops, Corporal Riesen, the author of this book, was sent into the mountainous jungle 'of central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with her breasts placed high, and her long jet-black hair hung down to her supple waist"), but on Captain Pierre's solemn remonstrance, he decided...