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...BURMA. Replacing soon-to-be-reassigned Joseph C. Satterthwaite: Walter Patrick McConaughy, 48, director of Chinese affairs in the State Department since 1952. Foreign Service Officer McConaughy has seen his share of lights going out in Asia: in 1941, while serving in the U.S. embassy in Peking, he was interned by the Japanese, released the following year. After a swing through Latin America he returned to China as U.S. consul in Shanghai, closed down the post in 1950 after the Communists had moved in. Principal current aim and ambition: to keep the lights burning brightly in Burma...
...gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...
Hallam L. Movius '30, Curator of Paleolithic Archeology in the Peabody Museum, has been one of the country's foremost authorities on the Stone Age man, through his explorations in Ireland, France, Central Europe and Burma...
...relationship more valued because it was volunteered. One way or another in the twelve years since World War II-years during which Russia enslaved all of Eastern Europe-Britain has given self-rule to six nations* and 507 million people, and of them all, only Burma and Sudan had voted to leave the Commonwealth. Britain is now in the process of giving measured self-rule to 61 million more. Among them...
...India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Sudan, Ghana...