Word: ceylonization
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...recruit about 100 American graduate students to teach in Ceylonese schools has been proposed by that country's Board of Education. The plan calls for graduate students from England, Germany, and Russia as well as the United States to teach language and science courses at the secondary level in Ceylon...
...assuming responsibility for the selection of the students, we also assume some of the responsibility for their conduct in Ceylon," Victor Cherubim, Ceylonese coordinator of the program, pointed out. "If there are any duds, it will be our fault," he said...
...Cherubim isn't expecting any "duds." His program calls for an unspecified number of qualified teachers; and Ceylon's concern is not with the quantity of teachers, but rather with their ability, he stated...
...Affluent Society. A big-picture thinker of considerable stature (6 ft. 8 in.), Galbraith has, since the inauguration, been making himself useful in Washington as a word man, supplying Kennedy speeches and other New Frontier documents with what he describes as "touches of the cosmetic or the cosmic." Ceylon: Frances Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow...
...days. Stevenson and Dean Rusk conferred with President Kennedy as the vote on the Angola resolution approached. To the sponsors of the Angola resolution (Liberia, Ceylon and the U.A.R.). Stevenson insisted that the U.S. would not support a strident, hysterical measure. As a result, the drafters took a sober second look at their own resolution and agreed to tone it down. During the debate, Adlai Stevenson cited the Declaration of Independence and chided NATO Partner Portugal for ignoring the obvious signals that could push Angola into the same hideous chaos Belgium had bestowed upon its Congo colony. When...