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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pahang, however, it may sometimes be hard to keep count. An eternal youth at 52, Sir Abu Bakar Ri'ayatu'd-Din Al-mu'adzam Shah ibni Al-marhum Al-mutasim Bi'llah Sultan Abdullah, soon to celebrate his 25th year as ruler of the largest state in Malaya, is a man as huge (6 ft. i in., 200-plus Ibs.) as his name, and as perenially active as the tongue that tries to pronounce it. An inveterate and skillful marksman, golfer, tennis and polo player, he is easily the most tireless partygoer in all Pahang...
However, there is no "guaranteeing," Snegireff asserted, that a non-smoker will not contract lung cancer. But the results of a poll of physicians by the School of Public Health showed that the largest group of non-smokers are the thoracic surgeons, "who see at close range the ravage wrought by lung cancer...
...years E.B.F. has been wrestling with "this kind of work" to bring to the world's classrooms some of the best educational films ever made. It is the largest producer of school movies, distributes them not only in the U.S. but to 55 foreign nations. Though no moneymaker, it has as impressive a board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another...
...occupations, and die a federal death, thereafter to be buried in a federal box in a federal cemetery." In Modern Republicanism he saw only "a splinterized concept of Republican philosophy." Of the Eisenhower budget he cried: "It subverts the American economy because it is based on high taxes, the largest deficit in history, and the consequent dissipation of the freedom and initiative and genius of our productive people, upon whom the whole structure of our economic system depends for survival...
Most Indonesians trusted Dr. Djuanda; they did not trust Sukarno's pro-Red ministers. Principal target of criticism was Stalin Peace Prizewinner Prijono, whom Sukarno named Minister of Education. Opposition politicians (including the powerful Moslem anti-Communist Masjumi Party, Indonesia's second largest, which ordered a boycott of the Cabinet), objected to at least three other Communist-line ministers...