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...Often trailed by as many as four interpreters speaking Singapore's eight main languages, the 79 candidates ministered to curious, multilingual crowds with sound-truck orations, clanging gongs and cymbals, Chinese opera troupes, the reedy piping of snake charmers, and campaign promises that ranged from "hospitals at your doorstep" to "compulsory courtesy for civil servants." Only three candidates were Europeans...
Rising Tide. But the West Indians are on every Briton's doorstep. And they are still coming in, in a tide that reached 10,000 this year and is still increasing. They carry British passports, and they cannot be barred on the ground of job scarcity; in booming Britain, there are more jobs than men to fill them. Admitted the Economist: "Complaints that natives of the West Indies are taking jobs and homes away from natives of Britain are really only polite hypocrisy...
...milk prices keep going up, U.S. housewives are beginning to rebel against these restrictive state controls. In Oregon, voters repealed the state law setting arbitrary prices at the doorstep and grocery counter, thereby sent prices down 2? a quart. Yet farmers are still collecting as much, or almost as much (10.9 to 10.2? a quart) as before, and consumption is headed up. In Florida, after voters failed to abolish their milk-control board, they brought pressure on the legislature for more consumer representatives on the board. In California, Safeway Stores, which preach firm prices for farmers and free competition among...
...Darkened Doorstep. In Miami, Mrs. Lois Brown turned husband Albert in to the police for burglary, explained that he had repeatedly ignored her rule against bringing his stolen loot into their home...
...short while later President Rhee appeared on the doorstep of a brick mansion on upper 16th Street-now firmly chaperoned by Simmons. To the housekeeper who answered Rhee's ring, Simmons announced: "This is the President of the Republic of Korea." "Oh, my," gasped the woman, "I'm a sight." She managed to invite Syngman Rhee inside with some show of hospitality, however, but since the owner of the mansion (Clark Griffith, patriarch of the Washington Senators baseball club) was not at home, Patriarch Rhee declined. Instead, he clambered through some poison ivy and inspected the house next...