Word: ceylonization
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...crowd of 2,000 were also the ambassadors of India, Burma and Ceylon, lesser diplomats of every degree, an eye-filling contingent of Eastern ladies, and a solid phalanx of Washington officials, socialites and curious local farmers. The star attraction was Lieut. General His Highness Saramad-i-Rajahai Hindustan Raj Rajendra Shri Maharajadhiraj Sir Sawai Man Singh Badahur, Maharaja of Jaipur, Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, descendant of the sun gods and a most puissant poloist...
Because the Y.M.C.A. never attempts to proselytize for a particular sect, it has attracted not only all denominations of Christians but non-Christians as well. Almost 90% of India's 30,000 members are Hindus. In Japan and Ceylon many members are Buddhists. Even Moslems have joined the Y. The Vatican, suspicious of the Y.M.C.A.'s deep Protestant roots, has warned Roman Catholics against joining. Despite this, some 25% of the Y.M.C.A.'s 2,230,000 U.S. members and about 95% of Philippine and South American members are Catholics...
...whites are being killed at more than twice the rate of their Canadian and Australian brothers. The U.S. homicide rate is three times that of Scotland, six times that of England, Ireland and Wales. Among the more violent homicidal nations: the Dominican Republic (7.5 per 100,000), Guatemala (4.2), Ceylon (3.9), Finland (3.3). No reliable figures are available on homicides behind the Iron Curtain...
Behind the Symphony of the Air lay a 42-concert tour of Japan, Korea. Okinawa, Formosa, the Philippines. Thailand, Malaya and Ceylon that endowed the U.S. with musical glory and cultural good will, and provided the indefatigable 92 with eight weeks of experiences that will give them anecdotes for years...
Unstuck. Far Eastern atmospherics were punishing to Western instruments-and instrumentalists. The glued parts of viols and woodwinds regularly came unstuck; humidity snapped the strings of three violas during Beethoven's "Eroica" in Ceylon. The heat could untune a piano half a tone in two hours and rot a dress suit in a matter of days. In Bangkok, with a temperature of 105° onstage and no fans, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy came backstage to insist that the men take off their white jackets. After that they often played in shirtsleeves, delicately abandoning suspenders in favor of belts...