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...separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China for anyone who wants to go) has done an effective job of combatting the Reds in Singapore. But if Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese become Malayan...
...major force behind the weak civil rights bill passed by the Senate a fortnight ago was the support given it by leaders of such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Americans for Democratic Action (TIME, Aug. 19). A major reason for last week's agreement on a stronger bill was the angry reaction of Negro leaders against the organizations' capitulation...
...Navy, after ordering slowdowns a fortnight ago in production of its F8U-1. Crusader, A4D-2 Skyhawk and F3H-2 Demon, last week announced another. Delivery schedules on the F4D-1 Skyray fighter manufactured by Douglas Aircraft will also be lengthened. ¶ The Air Force canceled a $100 million flight-research project with Republic Aviation on Republic's XF-103 jet interceptor. Selecting its weapons, the Air Force announced a new contract with North American Aviation for a new air-to-surface missile similar to the 6-47's Rascal...
Playing to please herself, just how good is Althea? Fortnight ago she led the U.S. team to an easy Wightman Cup victory (TIME, Aug. 19); last week she did beat both Louise Brough and Darlene Hard to win the Essex County Invitational tournament in Manchester, Mass. She may not yet be close to the steady, spectacular game that was the hallmark of women's tennis in the days of Suzanne Lenglen and Molla Mallory, of Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs. The champions of a few years ago-Pauline Betz, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly-could probably have beaten...
There is a marked difference between most places of worship and a new synagogue designed by Architect Rau and dedicated fortnight ago at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Rau's austere approach to his task conformed with a striking text in the Jewish Prayer Book: "He who is walking by the way and rehearses what he has learnt, and breaks off from his rehearsing and says, 'How fine is that tree, how fine is that field,' him the Scripture regards as if he were guilty against himself." Rau decided against all distractions...