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Late one night last week the searchlights illuminating the spacious cricket ground of sleepy Kuala Lumpur (pop. 300,000) suddenly went out. Two minutes later, precisely at midnight, the lights flashed on again, and as a crowd of 50,000 voices shouted Merdeka (freedom), the Union Jack slowly fluttered down to be replaced by a red, white and blue flag very like that of the U.S., save that instead of 48 stars it bore the single star and crescent of Islam. After 83 years of British rule, Malaya was an independent nation...
...everyone's dish, but it is at least something to see a British writer indulging in overstatement. Says Author Golding's victim, as his innards are slowly being poisoned by his diet of limpets: "I am in servitude to a coiled tube the length of a cricket pitch." This may be existentialism, even poetry, but it is not cricket. A pitch's length: 66 ft.; average adult intestine...
Simon-pure sportsmen objected that it was hardly cricket-something like funneling a golf green to insure accurate putting. The Rhode Island League of Salt Water Anglers protested to President Eisenhower. Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger protested to the Senate. But the vice chairman of the city council at Newport, R.I., where Ike will go for a vacation as soon as a laggard Congress lets him, snorted "perfectly ridiculous" and went right on throwing tasty bits of chopped fish into the ocean every day, so that when the President drops a line at the chummed spots, striped bass will...
While an aroused codger made news by bopping a detractor of the Queen (see FOREIGN NEWS) because, he said, Prince Philip was in no position to thrash the bounder himself, the prince collected a few headlines on his own. At Arundel Castle in Sussex, he captained a cricket team during a charity match, let a hot liner bounce off his chest for what the Americans would call an error, saw his players fight to a draw with the Duke of Norfolk's team. At Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, he raised eyebrows by having a drink with...
...Harvard XI lost to Haverford in cricket Saturday, 75 runs to 54. The Crimson was plagued by bad luck, as opening batsmen Barry Eastment and Monsoor Wharton-Ali went for six and nine runs, respectively...