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...never seems to occur to them that Nigger Heaven is crowded, that there isn't another seat, that something has to be done. It doesn't seem to occur to them, either, that we sit above them, that we can drop things down on them and crush them, that we can swoop down from this Nigger Heaven and take their seats...
Anything You Like. As Singapore's rioting subsided into sullen, sporadic outbursts, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman was still busy in Washington. To counter Indonesia's threat that it will "crush Malaysia"-which it probably could do, thanks to Soviet aid in arms and training-the Tunku was seeking U.S. military assistance. Sukarno, said the Tunku, "is to us what Hitler was to Europe...
...quixotic P. G. Winnett, 83, chairman and co-founder of the West Coast's Bullock's department stores, fought alone to rally stockholders against a merger with Federated Department Stores, the nation's biggest chain. Appealing to local pride, he warned that the "Eastern octopus" would crush Bullock's individuality. Bullock's other directors, led by Winnett's son-in-law, President Walter W. Candy Jr., 58, argued that a merger with Federated (60 stores, including Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Miami's Burdine's and Boston's Filene...
...plush Hotel Indonesia. A couple of hundred milling guests sipped lemonade or crowded around the guest of honor, Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, flashing his toothy smile. Near by, a 28-girl choir in tight, bright sarongs of multicolored, hand-printed cotton reverently purred Djakarta's hit tune, Crush Malaysia...
Since last summer Sukarno had been waging a "crush Malaysia" guerrilla campaign, branding the new Federation a neocolonialist plot. Three times he promised to call a halt, but in fact kept pushing the bloody little jungle war. When Malaysia's Abdul Rahman refused to talk as long as fighting continued, Sukarno once again promised to withdraw his guerrillas and to have the operation supervised by neutral Thai observers. Finally last week a group of 32 ragged Indonesians marched out of northern Borneo through a Thai-supervised border checkpoint. Shouted the departing Indonesian warriors: "Long live Thailand, long live Malaya...