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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike most children, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman was keenly aware that his new toy was breakable. An admirer of Nehru, the Tengku has already served notice that Malaya will not join SEATO. "For the protection of this country," said he last week, "I consider it sufficient that we enter into defense agreements with Britain." But for all his lack of enthusiasm for military pacts, Abdul Rahman is determined to clean up the Communist revolt that has plagued Malaya for the last nine years, at a cost to Britain and Malaya of $1,680,000,000 and nearly 4,500 lives...
...Russians would agree with the West to 1) quit making atomic weapons and 2) cooperate in setting up a foolproof worldwide system of inspection. "I sincerely hope," said the President, sounding what might well be the U.S.'s last word, "that the Soviet Union will now join us in agreeing." Preliminary Russian reaction: "Nyet...
...replacement for Pat Weaver's word "spectacular"), an increase of 15% over last year. The special shows, at least 26 of which will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night and Dial M for Murder for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ex-Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts...
Freckle-Fisted Winner. So the Braves won. They hung on in the National League pennant scramble even after First Baseman Joe Adcock broke his leg, and Outfielder Bill Bruton and Shortstop Johnny Logan limped over to join him on the sidelines. Somehow Manager Fred Haney kept on fielding a team. (At one time his outfield consisted of Catcher Del Crandall, Utility First Baseman Nippy Jones and Bonus Baby John DeMerit.) And somehow the Braves kept winning, put together a ten-game winning streak that knocked the St. Louis Cardinals out of the lead and broke up the fight...
...itself "the oldest and largest Protestant communion" turned out in Minneapolis last week for an impressive show of strength. The Lutheran World Federation was holding its third assembly (the first in the U.S.), and before its ten-days' sessions were over, some 100,000 people were expected to join the 252 official delegates from 57 church bodies in 29 countries, representing more than two-thirds of the world's 70-odd million Lutherans...