Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Independence was hardly a burning issue to the Maldives, whose 95,000 Moslems mostly fish. Although the British had held them as a protectorate since 1887, the islands had always governed themselves, and the British had never even sent an administrator to their capital at Male. Britain's only responsibilities, in fact, were the conduct of Maldivian foreign affairs (nonexistent) and defense (unnecessary). Its only interest was the R.A.F. runway on the island of Gan, which it will retain as a steppingstone to Southeast Asia...
...Maldives seem intent on submerging. They are not going to join the Commonwealth. They have not applied for membership in the United Nations. Nor, apparently, will they seek diplomatic relations with any nation anywhere. The closest thing the Maldivians have to a foreign service, in fact, is a Male fish trader who has set himself up in business in Ceylon...
...jailed demonstrators out Saturday after Thomas said, and "I was the male prisoner left." He from the other and put in the white cell...
Squarely in the middle of North Philadelphia's Negro ghetto stands a high-walled oasis: Girard College (endowment: $70 million), a 42-acre stretch of green lawns and classic buildings devoted to the free education of 700 "poor, white male orphans." To desegregate Girard has become the consuming passion of Cecil Moore, the militant president of Philadelphia's N.A.A.C.P. "It's a perpetual red flag," protests Moore. "A boy wakes up every morning to see a reminder that he's inferior...
...good idea until he remembered that he never eats lunch because he doesn't get up before 2 p.m. Contrary to my expectations, however, Rush turned out to be quite unassuming. An easy-going one-time English major, he lives inauspiciously on a Cambridge side-street with a male roommate, a shelf of Ian Fleming and an autographed picture of Judy Collins...