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...month-old autonomous state of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew's puritanical new administration, after banning pinball games and jukebox parlors, last week set out to end polygyny (except among Moslems) and to abolish the widespread local Chinese practice of concubinage...
...parade at Sandhurst is dark-skinned. Nyasaland's rabble-rousing Dr. Hastings Banda got his postgraduate medical education at Edinburgh, Kenya's Tom Mboya went to Oxford, Ghana's Nkrumah to the London School of Economics, and Singapore's new Communist-leaning Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is a Cambridge honors graduate, which Britons feel makes him easier to reason with. Currently, British universities have some 18,000 Commonwealth students. The old school tie is found in every corner of the Commonwealth. Says Canada's Ambassador to the U.N. Charles Ritchie: "We appreciate the same...
...three weeks since he took over as Singapore's first Prime Minister after 140 years of British colonial rule, slim Lee Kuan Yew has not yet justified all the fears of what his leftish People's Action Party might do to capitalism. But as a determined anti-imperialist, Cantabrigian Lee went to work right away on what he thought were imperialism's decadent gifts to Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll...
Down from the wall of Singapore's town hall came the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Next day, shirtsleeved and Next day, shirtsleeved and tieless, Lee Kuan Yew, chief of the left-of-center People's Action Party that had just captured 43 of 51 Assembly seats, took the oath of allegiance as the Queen's first Prime Minister of the autonomous State of Singapore...
...there was Chih Hang-his body considerably thinned, but firm and uncorrupted. Last week, in another shrine, guarded by stone lions and surrounded by Buddha figures, Chih sat for his gilding. Throngs of pilgrims came carrying incense sticks, bearing rice offerings, dropping coins in collection boxes. Meanwhile, Chen Lu-kuan, a goldsmith from Taipei, covered the body with a lacquered silk cloth and tenderly began to apply gilt with a brush...