Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yellow Rolls-Royce. The inauguration of the ADB took place one week after the start of the first Asian Inter national Trade Fair in Bangkok. Set up by the Thais, but nursed to fruition by the same Bangkok-based U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that inspired the formation of the ADB, the fair opened with Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej releasing 2,509 pigeons - one for each year of the Buddhist era. The King then joined his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, for a swing through 250 acres of fairgrounds in a yellow Rolls-Royce...
Some 3,000 corporations from within and without Asia set up exhibits and began bargaining at Bangkok, but the fair's main purpose is to stimulate trade, even among sometimes warring Asian nations. Included in their offerings: electrical and telephone equipment from India, machine tools and transistor radios from Pakistan, tires and tex tiles from South Korea, lacquerware handicrafts from South Viet Nam, cigarettes from Laos and air conditioners from Hong Kong...
Despite all the proud displays, a meaningful volume of intra-Oriental trade still remains a vision of the future. But the fair and the new Asian Development Bank could, as Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato put it at the ADB inaugural, mark the "opening of a new era in the history of Asia...
...Volpe wants to use the special session to focus the attention of the public and the legislators on this measure which is the keystone of his legislative program. He knows that if the bill must wait until the 1967 regular session it will again be killed in midsummer without fair or full debate...
...difficult to attach any clear significance to the myriad of resolutions which the conference adopted. The delegates did not represent a fair cross section of college students, teachers, and administrators. But it would be equally unfair to dismiss the conference as a bunch of leftists suggesting predictable reforms. Many of the students who came were presidents of their college councils, not simply disgruntled SDS types...