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When outspokenly anti-Communist Lim Yew Hock took over as Singapore's chief minister nearly two years ago, many of the colony's more responsible citizens thought the worst was over. Chief Minister Lim moved firmly to break up Communist infiltration of Singapore's Chinese middle schools, responded to a wave of Red-inspired riots by jailing a hot-eyed Communist agitator named Lim Chin Siong...
...business, and is 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...
...beat is hard and jumping, the yodels are nasal, and the clipped British consonants that bristle occasionally among the carefully slurred ham-hock vowels are hilarious. The songs are chain-gang, camp-meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
...come from unstately homes (with names like Kosy Kot) in dim English suburbs. They never had it so good ("We're on to a good thing here, and for Christ's sake let's enjoy it"), but it is not good enough. They are perpetually in hock to the merchants, forever struggling to make the frayed ends of their tropical pants match their sahib status. Furthermore, there is the new look in colonial policy: Asiatics have become Asians, and Malayan, Eurasian, Chinese or Indian can get away with murder while the British must punish themselves...
...sloppy caricature of the man who had once been the greatest heavyweight fist fighter in the world, Joe Louis pulled on a pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in hock to the Government for more than $1,200,000 in back taxes, Joe earned about $1,500 by belting the Cowboy out of the ring with a short jab to the belly. "It's an honest living," was the best he could say of his new occupation...