Word: mindanao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James A. Shannon, commandant of the Harvard ROTC during the spring and summer of 1917, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in France. Earlier, he had served in the Philippine Islands and from 1911 to 1914 took part in several expeditions against the "hostile" Moros in Mindanao. He served in Mexico with the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition and was selected by General Pershing to command the famous Apache Indian Scouts. After his return from Mexico, he came to Harvard as Professor of Military Science and Tactics...
...British allies an estimated $2 billion, was formally ended last week when General Suharto's enlightened government in Djakarta re-established diplomatic relations with Kuala Lumpur. In another tenth birthday present to Malaysia, the Filipinos signed an antismuggling pact to cut illegal trade between Sabah and Mindanao, thereby resolving an ancient territorial dispute...
...land and sea, and its frontier is formidable. Half of the country's 38,000 miles of roadway is ordinarily undrivable. Its waterways, which are more important than the land routes, trace a hazardous course among 7,000 islands ranging from Luzon in the typhoon-tossed north to Mindanao, 1,100 miles to the south where the seas are placid-except for roving Moro pirates...
...from Esso. The real power in Manila?and the Philippines?is never so embarrassingly garish. In the leather-upholstered interior of the Casino Español, under the flutter of ceiling fans, the talk is of sugar prices and the new timber-cut in Mindanao as the members of Manila's power elite discuss their endeavors. Polished ilustrados in dark Italian suits and handsome women in bright mestiza dresses nod politely to aging Carmen Soriano and her 39-year-old son José Maria, heirs of the Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany...
...cool air is sweeping across the area from Mandalay to Mindanao. In smaller towns, air-conditioned bars are the commerce and conversation meccas that U.S. barrooms were in television's infancy. Studies show that air conditioners raise plant efficiency by as much as 20%, and they are such crowd-drawers for stores, hotels and restaurants that some small eateries have more money invested in their cooling system than in all the rest of the place. Even Hong Kong prostitutes now entertain in air-conditioned "entertainment hostels," where climatized clients are said to tarry longer and tip higher...