Word: localness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger...
...growing strength lay in the confusion displayed by Japan's opposition Socialist Party, which flirts with Communism, seeks to promote Japanese ties with Red China, and hotly opposes Kishi's efforts to refurbish Japan's mutual defense pact with the U.S. Buffeted by three crushing local and national election defeats in the past 16 months, the Socialists gathered last week under huge red flags in Tokyo's Nine Steps Hall, to debate the reasons for their fading popularity and to patch up party squabbles. But after five days of noisy fist shaking, they were more divided...
...believe the clergy should speak out from the pulpit on controversial issues in the local community...
Findings of the features are based on interviews with local religious leaders and the results of a random-sample poll (text on pages 17 and 18) distributed to 400 Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Three hundred and nineteen polls were returned, a response of 78 per cent...
...especially grateful to David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, who gave valuable advice on the random-sample poll and to the local religious leaders and faculty members who discussed with us the issues involved...