Word: ceylonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mining the magic of the impossible, Clarke has uncovered the material for 40 volumes that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies-to say nothing of hundreds of articles in Sunday supplements and magazines ranging from LIFE to Playboy. His energy is impressive. In Colombo, Ceylon, where he has lived for the past twelve years, the author taught himself to be an expert skindiver. He has explored many tropical roofs, and charted and searched sunken wrecks in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Inevitably, he has also written extensively about underwater exploration...
With that charge, delivered by the Rev. D. T. Niles, president of the Methodist Church of Ceylon,* the fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches opened last week in the green and gabled Swedish university town of Uppsala. The first such gathering since 1961, the session marked the 20th anniversary of the Council-and also amounted to a crossroads of sorts for the world's largest non-Catholic Christian body...
...style remains to be seen. But the World Council's General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake warned that "the ecclesiastical establishment worldwide had better look hard to try to discern what God is now requiring of us as we are disturbed by the rods of anger." Added Ceylon's Pastor Niles: "Everywhere in our world today events are taking place which reveal that God is doing a new thing among...
...Switzerland, Laos, Burma, Indonesia, India, Ceylon, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Malaysia, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Austria. In addition, other locales in Algeria, Rumania, Egypt and Tanzania were mentioned...
...doubtful that he expected any of them to be acceptable to the other side. North Viet Nam has no diplomatic representation in any of the ten except Ceylon. An ideal spot would be one in which Americans, North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese would feel at home diplomatically, the site of preliminary talks is likely to serve also for any full-scale negotiations that might follow. Rusk observed that he would hardly expect the North Vietnamese to go to Seoul or Canberra any more than the U.S. could be expebted to go to Peking or Hanoi...