Word: formosae
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...sides in the cold war. It was the first Western European nation to call for self-determination in Algeria. It infuriated the Communists by bringing up the Tibet issue, and annoyed others-including a good many Roman Catholic prelates-by urging the U.N. to re-examine whether Peking or Formosa should represent China...
...months the rupiah (officially 45 to the dollar) had fallen from 150 to a record low of 500. Adding twirls to the inflationary spiral were the 2,500,000 Overseas Chinese who have been banned since Jan. 1 from doing business in rural areas. Packing up for Hong Kong, Formosa or Red China, they have bought up watches, cameras and any other consumer items that they could carry with them. By week's end, imported bicycles sold for the equivalent in rupiahs of $1,000, and refrigerators, when they could be found, commanded $4,000. Hong Kong sources estimate...
...bones kept in Olintepeque. One day last week in the main plaza of that village, the 1,500 inhabitants gathered apprehensively. The influx of foreign Catholic priests that started in 1954 (following repeal of a 19th century ban) was finally bringing Olintepeque its own parish priest. Luis Manresa Formosa, Bishop of nearby Quezaltenango and a no-nonsense defender of the faith, was coming with the departmental Governor to install James Flaherty of New York's Maryknoll order, as the fulltime village priest...
...week he was revving up again with the announcement that he will take off next month to visit Latin America, where sensitive nations often feel that the U.S. takes them too much for granted (see HEMISPHERE). There was also a possibility that he might stop off in Japan, Korea, Formosa and the Philippines on his way home from Moscow in June...
...Last Chance. Dwight Eisenhower first ran for President with the idea that he might help bring the world closer to peace. In his first term he demonstrated in the Strait of Formosa that the U.S. would stand staunchly against aggression; he demonstrated in the Suez crisis that the U.S. would resist aggression by its friends as well as its enemies, that peace was meaningless without justice. In 1956, he decided to run for re-election despite two major illnesses and the possibility that a constitutional ban against a third term might dilute his effectiveness (in the event, the 22nd Amendment...