Word: negrito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Mammal, What Now? Even if the bomb falls, muses Author Toynbee there is still a grain of hope. The people most likely .to survive and to be capable of salvaging "some fraction of the present heritage of mankind" are the Negrito pygmies of Central Africa -a race "said by our anthropologists to have an unexpectedly pure and lofty conception of the nature of God and of God's relation...
Three months ago Douglas MacArthur's Artillery Chief, Major General Edward P. King Jr., cemented a personal friendship of long standing with the Balugas, aboriginal Negrito tribe in central Luzon. In gratitude for rescues of many U.S. pilots after forced landings in the mountains, he cut his arm with a Boy Scout knife, bathed the knife in his blood and presented it to Baluga Chief Tomas...