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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adding to this fear is the ever-present shadow of the heavily Chinese crown colony of Singapore, which handles 75% of Malaya's business, and is separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: A New Nation | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...ever, but the line he now talks is quite different from 1953, when he promised to shoot the "oppressors." This time he shows more practical concern with the colony's huge problems-poor soil, soggy terrain, and torrid climate. He preaches cooperation with the Crown and with the firms controlling British Guiana's sugar and bauxite industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH GUIANA: Giving the Reds a Chance | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...Premier Nobusuke Kishi, ignoring wails from his political opponents, included Formosa in his tour of Southwest Asia, talked with Chiang, and on his return to Tokyo announced that Japan had no plans to recognize Peking "in the foreseeable future." Scheduled to visit Chiang this fall: Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Trend Reversed | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

During a lunch given her by New York's Mayor Wagner at the Waldorf, Althea managed to make a speech. "God grant that I wear this crown I have won with dignity," she said. "I just can't describe the joy in my heart." But she was also learning the rough side of being on top. "No matter what accomplishments you make," she says, "somebody helps you. People saw me going up there, and now they want to ride on the wagon. Whenever I hear anyone call me 'Champ,' I think there's something behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

JAPANESE CARS will soon make bid for share of U.S. market. Japan's Toyota automobile company in September will send over models of its four-door, 55-h.p. "Toyopet Crown de Luxe," which gets up to 69 m.p.h. from four-cylinder engine. Car sells for about $2,400 in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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