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Benefits at the Top. Malaysia's working arrangement for the past 20 years has always kept political power in the hands of Malays but allowed the more commercially aggressive Chinese and Indians to accumulate much of the economic power. Outwardly, this combi nation brought twin blessings. Malaysia developed a thriving modern economy that produced one of the highest per cap ita incomes in Asia, and at the same time enjoyed the personal freedoms of a liberal democracy. Presiding over the hopeful experiment was the avuncular figure of 66-year-old Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. His Alliance coalition, dominated...
...radio travel time, Mariner II acknowledged the command and repeated it accurately. For more than an hour the long-distance conversation continued, carried on in a language of carefully spaced pulses of radio energy. At Goldstone these pulses appeared as mere dots on a slowly moving tape. But each combi nation of dots represented numbers in the two-digit binary code that computers understand best. Finally, Goldstone sent "Signal RTC-6," which told Mariner II to execute all the commands one hour later...
...song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece, his best so far, in Bernstein's estimation. Still remembered is his brilliant musical, On the Town (1944), in which he fairly knocked the eyebrows off the highbrows by his combi nation of popular style and serious technique. Earlier attempts notwithstanding, Bernstein was the first to synthesize serious music and jazz with real ease...
...second weakness lies in the combi nation of Communism, nature and man in China. In a ferocious gamble, the three have been brought into deliberate conflict. Mao & Co. are men in a hurry, ambitious to "build a mighty industry like Russia's" (said Mao in 1953) faster than Russia did it, by imitating the Russian pattern and, if possible, avoiding Russia's mistakes. The first Five-Year Plan is Chinese Communism's big push. In ,its first year the successes that Communist propagandists claim are due chiefly to reaching top capacity in factories already built by their...