Word: java
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles to London. Next, another plane and another attendant took them 3,000 miles to New York's Idlewild Airport and trucks carried them 700 miles to Okatie Farms in South Carolina. There the rhesus monkeys from India were caged with other hordes of "Java" (Cynomolgus) monkeys from the Philippines, to be used as ammunition in a great battle now being fought by medical science. The enemy: polio...
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...line for the 300-odd delegates. In Asia, he said, "colonialism is a bigger issue then Communism-and white is the color of colonialism." Almost 99% of U.S. Protestant missionaries now serving overseas, said Dr. Thomas, are white men and women. "I asked the church leaders of mid-Java if they would prefer Negro or white workers, and their decision was unanimously against our present practice of sending almost exclusively white missionaries...
...China, for instance, are "known" only through large, humanlike teeth, most of them found in native apothecary shops. Many anthropologists deny that such giants ever existed. Other early humans are heavily documented by multiple finds of their bones. Neanderthal man, discovered in 1857, is as real as the Romans. Java man (1891), Peking man (1928) and many of the types recently found in Africa are too well-proved to be the creations of wishful' theorists or of jokers...
...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...