Word: pakistan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find the prettiest girl in a nation whose succulent peaches and sour lemons are often wrapped alike in the veils and Mother Hubbards of Islamic modesty is no easy matter. But the founders of Pakistan's Beauty Pageant Association, whose mission was to find a Miss Pakistan shapely enough to carry away the crown of Miss Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct...
...Associate Fellows appointed were: John Cornwall of Auckland, Australia; Denis Warner of Australia; Kazuo Kuroda of Tokyo; G. K. Reddy of Bombay; and Marghub Siddiqi of Pakistan...
...minus most nations in Southeast Asia. It disregards facts which Indo-China should have demonstrated--that Communism in that part of the world must be fought with something in addition to rifles, that fear of European colonialism often blinds Asians to the new colonialism of China. Moreover, by arming Pakistan, Dulles has upset the balance of power between India and Pakistan, and has forced Indian neutralism into a regrettable anti-U.S. attitude...
...Middle East, his scheme for a Northern tier alliance helped precipitate the latest Arab-Israel crisis and has provided an ineffective wall from Pakistan to Turkey which the Soviets seem to have taken some pleasure in jumping over...
...politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County" (the bottom of Georgia's backwoods; county seat: Camilla, pop. 4,000). He calls the U.S. foreign-aid program a "global WPA," and roars: "We gave money to build grain elevators in Pakistan. Why, that's 12,500 miles from Georgia...