Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authority on cross-cultural studies in personality, Miss Du Bois is known especially for her studies of California Indians and of Indonesian and South Asian peoples. She is the author of two books in her field...
...except during the dark period of our history of the Philippines when the Japanese occupied our country. During that period, my old copies that I had saved were inspirations for hope of final victory and freedom." From Sumatra, Reader B. Siregar wrote that he is a 30-year-old Indonesian student now taking an Australian correspondence course in civil engineering. To pay for the course, he began teaching his own class in bookkeeping and English, and in his spare time enjoyed that universal sport -fishing. Wrote he: "Here in Sumatra, the fish we love to catch is the silvery-white...
...motorcade, escorted by 100 Indonesian cops and guarded all along its route by scores of Tommy-gunners, swerved to a halt in the guerrilla-infested jungle of central Java when a sedan bearing Vice President Richard Nixon blew a tire. A trifle shaken, Nixon hurriedly joined his wife Patricia in another car, was soon on his way again...
Sumatra, the second largest island in Indonesia, straddles the equator and points northwest into the rolling blue wastes of the Bay of Bengal. On the island's tip, in the province of Atjeh, live about 1,000,000 Achinese, a proud and irritable people, unshakably Moslem, the first Indonesians to embrace Islam in the 11th century and the last to be pacified by the Dutch (1904). Some centuries ago the Achinese were intrepid pirates, raiding Western shipping, and attacking fortified towns in quest of slaves, concubines and booty. In modern times they have been peaceful farmers, fishermen and plantation...
...green and troubled land 50,000 Indonesian and Chinese Communists paraded one day last week crying: "Long live the Indonesian Communist Party!" Two days later 15,000 Moslems gathered to hear their leaders cry for a united front against "irreligious ideologies...