Word: ceylon
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...Russian author, began to doodle with grotesque and weird creatures as a schoolboy. He had. just entered law school-to round out his education-when the Communist revolution caught up with him. Escaping to a Black Sea port, he signed on a ship that he thought was bound for Ceylon, but ended up in New York with 14? worth of Turkish money in his pocket, spent his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
...raised a perceptible inch, and foreign diplomats can move deeper into the countryside. Newsmen are still largely unwelcome, but other delegations are streaming in by the hundreds. They include Greek dancers, Swiss doctors, Italian film makers, British agronomists, Indian economists, Danish exporters, Israeli women, Egyptian wrestlers. Delegations from India, Ceylon, Indonesia and Burma (headed by the Agriculture Minister himself) wandered admiringly through Moscow's huge agricultural exhibition...
...Ceylon, the Rev. Bob Richards, 28, consultant in Christian life activities at California's La Verne College, world's top pole vaulter and holder of the national A.A.U. decathlon title, was invited to address the Sunday school of the Methodist Church in Colombo. Suddenly the invitation was canceled. Reason: Bob, known as "the pole-vaulting padre," was found to have participated in Sunday sports...
...event "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes." The U.S. working draft had specified "Communist aggression." But Secretary of State Dulles was persuaded to take out the word "Communist" in order to render the agreement more attractive to the four "Colombo powers" (India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon-especially the last two) who had stayed away. In a separate protocol, the U.S. made it clear that it promised to react only to Communist attacks, in order not to get mixed up in brawls between non-Communist Asian nations-for example, a fight between India and Pakistan over Kashmir...
...with the largest armies-Formosa and South Korea-were not represented. Nor was Japan, which is potentially the strongest non-Communist power in Asia. Only two powers from the Asian mainland came to Manila: Thailand and Pakistan,-and Pakistan came only to observe. Four of the "Colombo powers"-India, Ceylon, Burma, Indonesia-stayed away...