Word: ceylonization
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...Colombo, Ceylon...
...some samples more than 100-fold. As expected, teas from South America and Africa show the least increase (the whole Southern Hemisphere has markedly less fallout than the Northern). Teas from China, Formosa and Japan may easily reflect mainly the fallout from Soviet bomb tests. Those from India and Ceylon can apparently only reflect the pooled fallout from Siberia, the Pacific islands and Nevada, which has gone around the world. Two reasons for tea's high count: the plant takes up minerals from the soil with great avidity, and the leaves are not washed to free them of last...
...International Seminar provided a near-capacity audience in Littauer Auditorium last night with glimpses into the four corners of the earth, this time exploring Burma, Ceylon, Italy, Sweden and Ireland...
...topics discussed at the Seminar's fifth Wednesday evening forum were "New Concepts and Old Values in Ceylon and Burma" and "The Literary Interlude...
...Ceylonese speaker, Samson Wijesinha, a lawyer, gave credit to Britain which "with one stroke of the pen turned discontented subjects into equals and friends" when it granted independence to Ceylon...