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...Then, 6,000 years ago, came Indonesians in boats, to push the Negritos into the interior; the Indonesians in turn were pushed back by a wave of Malays. When Ferdinand Magellan landed in 15 21 he found a people with its own written language, government by tribal law, a strict moral code, a thriving commerce. Magellan, before he was killed by tribesmen, named the place San Lazaro, but later Spain changed it to Philipinas, in honor of Prince Philip, who became Philip...
There was a sudden scurry of well bathed legislators and diplomats for cover. "I gave strict orders at the time I saw the blueprints," alibied one Welfare Ministry official, "that beds should not be provided in rooms attached to the baths, since this is not sanitary." "I saw some half-naked girls running around on the second floor," admitted an investigating Diet member, "but I got the impression that they were not all bad girls." He did feel, he added, that "due to international repercussions, something should be done." So did most everyone else. The trouble was-what? Nice...
...college gates, he never gave up the fight against excessive nationalism, "money madness" and snobbery, every attempt to muzzle civil liberties and academic freedom. As Princeton's chief disciplinarian for two decades, he commanded the respect and affection of thousands of erring undergraduates by a combination of strict fairness and good-humored understanding, was once epitomized in the "Faculty Song" of Princeton's senior class...
...later board of Princeton trustees referred to Belcher as "the Founder patron, and benefactor of the college" but the good Governor may have doubted the value of his project when he was stricken with palsy at the Princeton Commencement of 1750. He died soon afterward, but not before leaving strict orders that he be buried in Cambridge and that his two sons be sent to Harvard...
...Germany, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer agreed to talk it over-but his terms were uncompromising. First, there should be a United Nations investigation to determine whether free elections are possible. Second, elections should be carried out under 14 tough conditions. Examples: free ballots cast in secret and counted in public, strict U.N. supervision of polling, free campaigning and press coverage...