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...sent enough abroad, mostly to the U.S., to boost its foreign exchange reserves to a healthy $430 million. More than 95% of Malaya's children attend primary school, 100,000 automobiles ply a network of well-surfaced new roads, and Malaya's one airline (Malayan Airways Ltd.) has a perfect safety record after 14 years of operation. "We want to create the climate for good business," says Prime Minister Abdul Rahman. "We must raise the standard of living through economic development and achieve unity through education-and the hell with highfalutin political ideas...
...gigantic grasshoppers, monstrous mollusks and vicious vegetables, the menace merchants have surveyed their shrinking returns and concluded that overwork at last had killed the pterodactyl that laid the golden egg. With that the world's leading gooseflesh peddlers-American International Films of Hollywood and Hammer Film Productions Ltd. of London-decided to go back on the ghoul standard. The bats were summoned from the industry's well-stocked belfry, and in recent months they have been sucking the green stuff out of the public at an impressive rate. Three of the new horrors, made for less than...
...mark in Canada, Theodore Jonathan Emmert, 45, likes to play parlor games that involve the element of chance, almost invariably wins by swiftly reckoning the mathematical probabilities. Last week Emmert took on a job that calls for both skill and luck: the presidency of A. V. Roe Canada Ltd., a $270 million complex that produces aircraft, steel, engines and buses. Because Canada makes no missiles, Roe has fared worse than most planemakers in the switch away from aircraft; last year its sales fell 27% to $242 million. Emmert, who began as a production-line worker at Seattle's Boeing...
...mixer for Scotch whisky called, surprisingly enough, Scotch water. Canned from springs on the Scottish east coast, near Forfar, the soft water is the same as that used in the whisky itself, is being shipped to the U.S. by Lambs Strathmore Springs, Ltd...
...Edwardian elegance reigns: the Stanhope (a favorite of Princess Grace Kelly) and the Gotham. Their handsome owner, Mrs. Evelyn Sharp, 58, runs them as her home, e.g., desk clerks wear evening clothes after 6 p.m., coffee is ground just before brewing. Shrewd Businesswoman Sharp (who took over Sharp Ltd. Hotels on the death of her husband in 1941) last week sold the Gotham, the Stanhope and California's Beverly Wilshire to William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp for $25 million. As replacements, Mrs. Sharp plans to put up in Manhattan and Beverly Hills a pair of new luxury hotels...