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Three months ago, at 60, Kishi became his country's Premier. Last week he set out on a whirlwind tour of "Positive Asian Diplomacy," through Formosa, Burma, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Ceylon, in preparation for a visit to Washington. His purpose: to persuade his neighbors that the new Japan was anxious to cooperate "in a spirit of modesty to achieve mutual prosperity by combining American capital, Japanese technology and local resources...
...palms and soles were a mass of blisters. It took six days of treatment with cortisone, wet dressings and lotions before he could leave the hospital. Cause of his trouble: a rare, severe sensitivity to quinine. A Philadelphia woman, 60, had a bad rash after gathering cashew nuts in Ceylon, and a relapse weeks after her return, when she found some, of the nuts in one of her bags and opened them to show to her family. Her trouble: allergy to cashews, which contain an 011 called cardal. Say the reporting doctors: U.S. travelers, now going to the tropics...
...India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Sudan, Ghana...
Sandys is now mulling over the idea of replacing conscription with U.S.-style selective service. He is also preparing to reduce Britain's NATO forces in Germany. With British forces gone from Iraq, going from Ceylon, and practically expelled from their last two bases in Jordan, experts are advising him to bring all remaining colonial garrisons home, at least from Asia. Sandys is prepared to go far, but not so far as British Military Expert Captain Basil Liddell Hart, who last week urged Britain to put all its reliance on nuclear weapons, and chop its defense budget by nearly...
...Coordinator. Soaring high into the clean, quiet void - where at times the visibility stretched for more than 200 miles - the planes streaked counterclockwise around the earth - eastward across the U.S., over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that...