Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour was the idea of Britain's John Coast. He was a P.W. in southeast Asia during the war, later married a Javanese girl and settled in Bali to write (Recruit to Revolution) and to organize a troupe of dancers. His wife Supianti is assistant producer, costume designer and "mother" to the cast's nine girls. They will take the troupe from Boston to Washington late this month and from Cleveland to Los Angeles later this year. As for Manhattan, it has bought up tickets so fast that the Balinese have agreed to come back for two additional...
...wants to delay such an alliance, and partly because Indonesia's leaders, like India's, still dream of a Third Force position between the Communist and the anti-Communist worlds. Recently, two young Filipino veterans, Jaime Ferrer and Eleuterio Adevoso, had an idea: Why not bring Southeast Asian veterans together as private citizens, bypassing governments? Last week in Manila, 33 delegates and observers, representing the veterans of nine countries from Formosa to Australia, assembled for a discussion of regional security...
Spruce & Iron. In spite of its backward aspects, Newfoundland is potentially rich. The famed Grand Banks off its southeast coast, discovered for England by John Cabot in 1497, are still the world's greatest cod-fishing grounds. Newfoundland's forests abound with prime black spruce for papermaking; they hold the only big stand of disease-free birch left in Canada. Newfoundland's unharnessed streams can eventually yield an estimated 8,000,000 h.p. of electric energy, nearly one-third the total developed in the U.S. The rocky land is rich in iron; it has proved deposits...
...Southeast Asia: The U.S. should help the various governments of southeast Asia "fulfill their national destiny"; should proclaim that the U.S. will tolerate no "manifestations of Communist aggression...
Among the world's few remaining kings, the monarchs of Southeast Asia are unique in one respect: they write music. King Phumiphon Adundet of Siam sold five songs (Falling Rain, Blue Night, etc.) to Mike Todd for his Broadway Peep Show. Phumiphon's neighbor. His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (TIME, July 21), though affairs of state keep him on the run, also composes...