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...Borneo leaders cool to the federation with promises of favored political positions in the new nation. He shrewdly offered the Borneo territories 70 seats in the federal parliament, against only 15 for far more populous Singapore and 104 for Malaya. He promised tax concessions and a $12 million dollop of Malayan aid annually to the territories, agreed to keep federal hands off Brunei's oil reserves. It was the Tunku's fondest hope that the new nation come into being on Aug. 31, 1963, the sixth anniversary of Malaya's independence...
...protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...
...this old-fashioned remedy to passengers in luxury liners." Another old remedy was devised for Bisset's dysentery. The captain's remedies were numbered, and No. 15 was for dysentery. But the captain ran out of it. So he gave the green-faced Jimmy an arithmetically compounded dollop of No. 5 and No. 10. It worked...
...newsmen rallied to go out on the town, happily gawked at bare-breasted stripteasers, encountered flocks of B-girls ("Darling, ees eet hokay eef I have anod-der veeskie?"), and learned to down the whisky bamby: a $5 wallop of orange and pineapple juice built around a big dollop of Scotch...
TELEVISION, which can never get quite enough talent, is currently getting a mighty dollop of it from one man. He is a playwright, director, actor; a veteran of the West End, Broadway and Hollywood; wit, linguist, dialectician and a mimic who can echo anything from a talking dog to a racing car. For an account of his prolific adventures in TV and elsewhere, see TELEVISION AND RADIO, Busting Out All Over...