Word: do-it-yourself
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...five festive days last week, nearly a million Malaysians streamed through their flag-draped capital of Kuala Lumpur to celebrate ten years of merdeka - freedom. In a mile-long procession and countless do-it-yourself fiestas, brightly costumed citizens, many of them from remote kampongs, beat on Malay drums, Chinese cymbals and Kadazan tom-toms. Sarawak Dyaks played flutes with their noses and blue-clad Chinese acrobats and Bajau horsemen from Sabah performed, while Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, 64, watched from a blue Bentley convertible flanked by three ceremonial elephants...
...inside. What is inside is words, with a sprinkling of pen-and-ink caricatures with oversized heads by David Levin. Last week, to the wondering eyes of its white, middle-class readers, Review devoted the lower third of a cover dealing with books on Negro rebellion to a detailed, do-it-yourself diagram of a Molotov cocktail. Some were amused, some were startled, none were likely to make much use of the blueprint. What was meant to give everybody a bang turned out to be just a little...
...same sort of happy jolt this week when another new comer, Marilyn Maye, breezes in and limits the tributes to her piano-accompanist husband, Sammy Tucker. "Stand up, honey," she usually says, "and let them see your fat little body." Their asides aside, Lana and Marilyn are old-fashioned do-it-yourself singers with an unmistakable message: a first-rate entertainer can do without the fancy trappings of the packaged big sell...
Many of them will find waiting a small gift from the government of South Viet Nam: a compact do-it-yourself defection kit. Wrapped in vinyl, it contains all that a faltering Viet Cong needs to defect, including a safe-conduct pass and a map of the local district showing precisely where-and how-to find the Allied side. Throughout the country, the kits will be hand-delivered to Viet Cong families by an extraordinary assembly of postmen: former Viet Cong who, as Hoi Chanh (returnees), have become members of the government's armed propaganda teams. The kit will...
Inspiring as such examples seemed in print, to the level-headed men charged with running China on a day-to-day basis-from factory managers to government bureaucrats to party officials like Liu and Teng-it looked like the Great Leap Forward of 1958 writ large in madness. By its do-it-yourself backyard-foundry mania, Mao's Great Leap had cost China several years of economic growth. The new revolution was to be far more encompassing, and it also threatened the technocrats' jobs. In a factory run by Mao-think, who needs a manager or even...