Word: indonesianness
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...service whenever their draft boards want them. ¶ After studying the compulsory education laws of 48 nations, UNESCO announced that British and Tasmanian children are required to spend more time in school (ten years) than any others. Next: U.S. children, who in most states spend nine. Last in line: Indonesian children, who don't have to go to school at all. ¶ The University of North Carolina, overwhelmed with protests, changed its mind about exiling its Negro graduate students to end-zone seats during football games (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week the Negroes got regular student passes...
Miss Jean Mintz, called an authority on all things Indonesian by that country's United Nations delegates, arrives at the University this week to take a Littauer Fellowship in the School of Public Administration...
...York born, Miss Mintz began working for the Indonesian delegation four years ago as a volunteer. Since then she has studied the country and its language until she became "almost indispensable" to the Indonesian delegation, in the words of its chief, Dr. L. N. Palar...
...night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal: goods must be long-hauled by rail 2,000 miles to the north. But to unload farther north on China's coast, ships must run the Nationalists' blockade...
...ambassador also discussed the problems his country has faced since August 17, 1945 when it declared its independence. He outlined the conflict between those "who favor a return to the pre-colonial Indonesian culture" and those "who wish to adopt completely Western ideas and methods...