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...Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, is probably the best any British possession has ever had. The government is bringing along natives as No. 2 men in all departments. By Oriental standards education is already advanced (literacy is around 40%), and big school-building programs are afoot. On my way out to see Mac-Donald at "Bukit Serene," three miles from Johore Bahru, the Malayan taxi driver said: "If we were going five miles, I would have to ask you to lie down on the floor. The bandits keep watch at five miles. If they saw you, then...
...information boss was supposed to handle all information and publicity in Washington for the three services. But under Secretary Louis Johnson, the services had managed to take over most of the job, and Johnson himself had handled the rest. The Army, Navy and Air Force now have a plan afoot to run their own publicity shows completely, leaving Fritchey little more than the task of supervising the mimeographing machines...
...Boudreau had been a Cleveland pet ever since he joined the Indians as a shortstop in 1939. In 1942 he became the "boy wonder" manager (at 24). Lacking speed afoot (his nickname is "Old Shufflefoot"), Lou made up for his slowness by getting a fast jump on the ball and by developing an almost uncanny knack of knowing where opposing batters were most likely...
...innumerable sandbag barricades. But many of the positions had been left unmanned, and most of the Red soldiers who had been assigned to defend Pyongyang quickly threw up their hands. On the roads running north from Pyongyang, U.N. pilots spotted some 20,000 North Korean troops, some fleeing afoot, some by truck or by oxcart...
...smell a parallel. There were all sorts of complaints afoot when the Council thought up its original parking lot, but when the student had to put down four dollars a month to park his car three-quarters of a mile away, it just wasn't worth it. Mr. Pyne figures a five-minute walk for the distance, reasonable time for a cross-country man; students will probably forego the exercise and the fee and go on parking their cars on the streets...