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...Silat of Singapore were bursting with birthday fervor. The Silat are Moslem warriors who wear black sarongs and practice a karate-like form of combat. About 100 of them brought up the rear of a procession as it made its way last week from Singapore's rambling old cricket field through the center of town, when a Chinese traffic cop ordered them to tighten their ranks so as not to obstruct traffic. A few of the Silat knocked him flat, and in an instant the rest of the Malay crowd reminded everyone that amok is a Malay word...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The National Professional Grass Court Tennis championships, videotaped from the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass...
House G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleek, for one, thought that this was less than cricket. Fourteen House Republicans are members of their party's national convention Platform Committee, which starts work in San Francisco on July 6. Those members quite understandably would like to be on hand to shape the platform, and Halleck had been aiming for a July 3-20 House recess. Now he ruefully recalled the help that he and his G.O.P. colleagues had given Johnson on civil rights: "Memories are real short around here...
...Creeping Crickets. Twice a day, usually in early afternoon and again at dusk, the warm monsoon rains patter down. The paddies of the delta are already flooded ankle-deep. Plodding patiently across them, in a tableau ancient as the land itself, peasants in conical hats and mud-caked pants thrust pale green rice shoots into the fertile soil beneath the water. And in the humid dusk, countless crickets sing out-or get themselves captured by small boys who sell them to gambling elders for cricket fights...
...closer or more constant contact with the ordinary Englishman than the 75-year-old Dunlop Rubber Co. Dunlop makes the hot-water bottle he tucks into bed with him, the galoshes he depends on in England's soggy climate, the hose he waters his roses with, and the cricket bat he wields. Most of all, Dunlop makes his tires: half of all British vehicles roll on Dunlops. With car sales strong, business is bullish. This week the company will report that profits jumped 14% last year to $77.5 million on sales of $792 million...