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The federation itself is fragile. Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman knitted four former British colonies into a multiracial, multiculture conglomerate. But he has been less successful in holding his creation together. Fearful that Singapore's industrious Chinese might overshadow his own easygoing Malays, Abdul Rahman last year expelled the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Looking for an Angel | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Battleships are majestic, destroyers are dashing, submarines are sinister -but LSTs (landing ship, tank) are slow, clumsy, ugly, and somehow faintly comic. Lieut. Jake Adler, who commands LST 1826 as it bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Sep. 30, 1966 | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

When Bing took over the Met in 1950, there were all kinds of toes waiting to be stepped on-and he did not miss many. His predecessor, an easygoing ex-tenor named Edward Johnson, had run a tidy if not altogether harmonious house where the terrible-tempered diva and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Lord of the Manor | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

With such impassioned oratory, James Douglas Johnson, 41-neither a consanguineal nor a philosophical relation of the President-last week handily captured the Democratic nomination for Governor of Arkansas. Not too many people in the capital of Little Rock gave Johnson, an out-and-out segregationist ("I don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: A Different Kind of Johnson | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Varda's hero is a handsome young carpenter named François, an easygoing embodiment of the masculine principle, feelingly played by Actor Jean-Claude Drouot, whose real-life wife Claire and their two children portray his family on film. François defines happiness as "submitting to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Philandering Tale | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

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