Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other fields. Commission IV (Educational Standards and Curricula) should attempt to gain united student support for increased faculty salaries. Commission V (International Student Cooperation) faces a full agenda with world student exchange, foreign relief work and rehabilitation projects as well as the more obvious matter of helping to orient students from abroad. The number of such specific questions with which each commission can deal when the NSO launches its career stands limitless. By tackling limited tasks suitable for student action, NSO can fulfill the need for an impartial, authoritative organization able to stimulate awareness of deficiencies and provide machinery...
...chosen few will find that they are not traveling around the prewar world, nor in the prewar way. Passengers will not be encouraged to stay ashore overnight in the Orient. And no more can they stop over anywhere they like, catch the next ship that strikes their fancy. Out are such favorite prewar diversions as getting off at Kobe, going by rail and small boat to Korea, then to Peiping to see the Temple of Heaven, then buzzing down to gaudy Shanghai to pick up the same Dollar liner they left at Kobe...
...Army Major who-does secret service work in the Orient...
Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
...pestilence-ridden China, the pagoda-like buildings of Peiping Union Medical College ("Johns Hopkins of the Orient") have been a symbol of medical hope. Started in 1921 with Rockefeller money, the college was the birthplace of Chinese public health work, and trained many of China's modern medical leaders. The Japanese looted it, and after V-J day it served as headquarters for General George Marshall's abortive peace mission. Last week the college had an electrifying rebirth: the Rockefeller Foundation gave $10 million to restore and reopen it at better than prewar strength...