Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo officialdom, Japan's 800,000 "resident Koreans" have long been unwelcome guests who contribute more than their share to Japanese crime and unemployment statistics. But to Soren, the Red-lining General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan, the Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once...
Within an hour after the monk's bullets found their mark, Ceylon's tough, puckish Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke proclaimed what amounted to a state of emergency over Ceylon-a volatile land that boasts the highest homicide rate in Asia. But next day, as Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long...
...General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 58, retired Army Chief of Staff, flew from New York City to Mexico City and foreign residence as board chairman of Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
...picture tube is accused of many things, but rarely of being a revolutionary force. But that is precisely what it is, holds San Francisco State College's Samuel I. Hayakawa (Language in Action), a leading general semanticist. The most dramatic way in which TV has worked for social change, Hayakawa last week told the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s conference on public service programing, is shown by the problem of integration...
...planners devise methods to map the far side of the moon. Biggest single project is Vega, the U.S.'s most advanced space vehicle. Expected to fly in about 18 months, the first Vega will use an Atlas D as its first stage. The second stage, powered by a General Electric X405 rocket engine, is intended to place a 2½-ton satellite in a 300-mile orbit. Later Vegas will have third stages fueled with a J.P.L.-developed mixture, hydrazine and nitrogen textroxide, and should be capable of putting a 500-lb. vehicle on Mars...