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With Dr. William L. Howse of Nashville, an official of the Southern Baptist Convention, Allen has begun a three-week tour to expound his Sunday school building ideas to Japanese Baptists, also plans to conduct clinics and conferences in Hong Kong, Java, Korea and the Philippines under the sponsorship of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Southern Baptist Convention...
Prehistoric Pompeii. Professor Blanc's discovery near Rome not only predates Homer but may even date back to Java man, who roamed the Southeast Asiatic area in the early part of the glacial epoch. A professor of human paleontology...
Soekarno met Hartini in 1953 during a ceremonial visit to Solo, in Central Java. Long before, according to the outraged ladies, Hartini had been only intermittently attentive to her husband and five children. In the months that followed, Hartini was rarely at home, and Indonesian society clattered with talk of the President's clandestine romance. A year ago, a leading women's organization circulated a letter to women's clubs charging that Soekarno had married his girl. Only then did Soekarno admit that he had taken Hartini as a second wife in June 1954, and claimed that...
After the Java Sea defeat, he wrote a sardonic song called I Wanted Wings. Pilots were still singing it, eight years later, in Korea. As famous throughout the Pacific as his war song was Dowling's personal courage. Terrified of flying, he tried to overcome his fear by parachuting. On Luzon, he made a battle jump with the 11th Airborne Division in civilian street shoes. Result: one broken ankle. Said TIME HEMISPHERE Editor John Walker, who survived the Leyte bomb blast with Dowling: "Being with him made you braver than you were...
...state of siege and war - that is, martial law - in three islands dominated by the secessionist rebels who have set up what they call the Republic of the South Moluccas. Other revolts are already in progress in parts of northern Sumatra, Celebes, southern Borneo, and western and central Java. Some government officials admit in private that even with effective and stable central government, revolt and rection will take years to overcome...