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...Although the post-World War II baby boom is leveling off, the world's population is still growing by 1.2% each year, according to a new World Health Organization study. Biggest net population increases are mostly in high-mortality, high-birth-rate countries, with some important exceptions: Ceylon, 28.5 per thousand inhabitants, Chile 22.9, Canada 19.2. Lowest increase countries: England and Wales 4.0, West Germany 4.5, Sweden 5.7. Biggest exception to the rule: The Netherlands, with a 14.1 increase and a low 7.7 death rate. (The U.S. had a 15.1 increase and 9.6 death rate...
While a herd of spotted mouse deer grazed under the banyan trees nearby, five men who speak for nearly a fourth of the people in the world gathered inside an old palace in the Indonesian resort town of Bogor last week. The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia-the so-called Colombo Powers-came together to plan history's first political conference of the nations of Africa and Asia. Questions to be settled were: where, when, why and whom to invite...
...suggested that Israel be included, but Pakistan's Mohammed AH objected on behalf of the Moslem states, and Israel was excluded. The white-supremacy government of South Africa was not even discussed. ("We can't go there, so why the hell should we invite them here," explained Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala.) North and South Viet Nam were invited; South and North Korea were not. Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo proposed Japan, a surprising suggestion from a nation that still remembers the Japanese conquest of the East Indies. But Japan's invitation was designed to balance...
Aside from these programs of individual exchanges, there were many travel groups. UCLA's "Project India" for three summers has sent goodwill missions to Indian universities, and California at Berkeley followed with a more hurried trip to Pakistan, India, and Ceylon. The American Friends Service Committee has also sponsored travel, although most of the attendance at its work camps and seminars in Asia was composed of Asians from nearby countries...
OVERSEAS OIL investment will soon get a big boost from Shell Oil Co. and Standard Oil of California. Shell, in association with Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., will spend $40 million to build Ceylon's first oil refinery, turn out 1,200,000 tons of gasoline and other products annually. Standard will do the same for Hawaii by building the islands' first major refinery at a cost of $30 million, including facilities to refine 30,000 bbls. of oil daily, enough to take care of most of Hawaii's retail needs...