Word: orients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columbus left his famous voyage incomplete, for in discovering America he failed to locate a quick route to India and the Orient. Americans today are trying to complete Columbus' voyage of finding a new route to the heart and mind of twentieth century Asia. And one of the largest reefs in the way of real understanding is a false conception of India's so-called "neutrality." Urging Red China's admission to the United Nations, refusing to join a Southeast Asian collective security pact, trying to put the brakes on West German rearmament--in all India's policies, Prime Minister...
...expand its air fleet. Other worries stemmed from 1) the Government's cut in Northwest's domestic-mail pay from 53? a ton-mile to 45? this year, and 2) Pan American's application to fly the great-circle route from the U.S. north to the Orient, hitherto exclusively flown by Northwest. Nyrop, who is confident he can solve the troubles, began his career by studying law at George Washington University while a Senate elevator boy, joined the legal staff of newly created CAB in 1939. At CAA he whittled the budget by $15 million...
...became the Sultan's favorite, and lived to a ripe age plotting bloodthirstily against the Sultan's enemies. Thanks to Aimée, her son, Mahmoud II ("The Reformer"), broke the power of the Janissaries and (says a Turkish poet) "opened the gate of the Orient to a new light." "We see [through Aimée]," concludes Author Blanch, "that even in the seraglio, as a slave, she had considerably more freedom to be essentially a woman than many women now enmeshed in the complex mechanism of our economic civilization...
...more positive proof of the contempt in which they are held at the present time by the Chinese Communists, the shooting of the airliner over the China Sea [TIME, Aug. 2] is it . . . To those of us who have watched the cowardly retreat of the great powers in the Orient during the past seven years, this shooting came as no surprise immediately after the Geneva Conference . . . If the British do not retaliate in kind next time they are attacked, there will be many more shootings . . . I have seen the show in China, Korea, Japan and the Philippines since...
...nauseated by the way certain members of the Labor Party play "footsie" with the Reds. Mr. Attlee, an ex-soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea don't get up from their graves with disgust...