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...MINOR crisis was brewing in the -» tiny British protectorate of Brunei as Paul Hurmuses, TIME'S Hong Kong staff correspondent, paid a visit there last week. The local Sultan, who rules that little nation of former wild men of Borneo, wanted his entire palace air-conditioned. His comely and strong-minded wife insisted that the bedrooms be left free of this 20th century improvement. "Don't worry," an aide whispered, "he'll win her over, but it will take time." For an account of some greater triumphs achieved by the Sultan of Brunei in bringing...
Money is much loved in New Thought. The Rev. Raymond Charles Barker offered a pamphlet titled Money Is God in Action; "Achieving Financial Freedom" was the subject of a panel discussion. Dr. Paul Martin Brunei of the Science of Mind discoursed on "Money Talks." Circulate your money freely, he said. "You will find more and more come into your experience. Make it a rule in your lives: 'I am always where there is plenty of money.' " New Thoughters "want happy, vibrant, abundant money...
...faraway island there lives a young king with so much money that he doesn't know-quite-what to do. He is Omar Ali Saifuddin, 37, the benevolent Sultan of Brunei. A British protectorate, his small realm (2,226 sq.mi.; pop. 41,000) lies on the northwest coast of Borneo, and its money-about $25 million a year-comes mostly from oil. Last summer Omar Ali Saifuddin decreed an ambitious welfare program costing $33 million (TIME, Aug. 31). But there was still a surplus. So the young Sultan cast a philanthropic eye on Malaya, a neighboring, blood-related British...
Last week dapper, handsome young (36) Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin, He Who Is Made Lord of all Brunei, announced a five-year plan to make Brunei Asia's first welfare state. Prepared to spend the equivalent of $650 on each of his 50,000 subjects, the Sultan included in his program free medical services, the building of 30 new schools and new hospitals, an airport, a hotel, sanitation and power plants. There would be social security for widows, orphans, lepers, the blind and the aged. Promising youngsters would be sent abroad on scholarships...
...Sultan also promised free land for every family in Kampong Ayer, the sprawling village on the Brunei River, where 8,000 people live over the murky water in houses built on stilts. So far, none of the people have been wooed away from their ramshackle wooden houses, linked by rickety footways. The benevolent Sultan refuses to despair...