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...motorcycle police escorted shiny official limousines to meetings at the pale, domed conference hall in the heart of the city. Inside the paneled auditorium and at diplomatic cocktail parties, an endless stream of dignitaries strolled up to greet the man who was the focus of everyone's attention. Malaya's stocky, smiling Prime Minister Abdul Rahman. 60. the golf-playing ex-playboy who this summer will bring into being a new Asian nation...
...EAST Burma 95.4 95.4 Cambodia 248.6 85.9 334.5 Nationalist China 2,051.6 2,376.7 4,428.3 Hong Kong 30.4 30.4 Indo-China Region 2 825.6 709.6 1,535.2 Indonesia 670.9 670.9 Japan 2,660.7 1,033.1 3,693.8 Korea 3,431.4 2,002.2 5,433.6 Laos 291.9 169.8 461.7 Malaya 23.2 23.2 Philippines 1,334.4 418.8 1,753.2 Thailand 336.1 417.8 753.9 Viet Nam 1,699.3 742.4 2,441.7 SEATO 1.8 1.8 Regional 41.9 461.1 503.0 $13,743.2 $8,417.3 $22,160.5 MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA Cyprus 16.9 16.9 Greece 1,784.8 1,602.8 3,387.6 Iran...
...salesman from a newspaper in Melbourne. Australia, because the management thought girls sold the ads better. He headed for Hong Kong to seek his fortune. He apparently found it after World War II in the vague area of "mining and transportation," it is said. He has a company in Malaya called Eastern Mining and Metals Co., Ltd. Beyond that, little is known. The world of John A. T. Galvin's wealth could become public when his tax case comes to court. But, as Galvin's California lawyer says, "These things take forever, you know...
...Salk program. At the end of 1959, almost half the U.S. population had received a Salk shot, and already the occurrence of polio had dropped 80%. By the same time, Merck, Sharp, and Dohme Research Laboratories had shipped Sabin's live virus doses to Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Malaya, Singapore, and the U.S.S.R. Over ten million people were vaccinated in these countries, while in the Belgian Congo 2.2 million took another live virus vaccine, developed by Dr. Herald R. Cox of the Lederle Labs. Still a third live-type preparation was being developed by Dr. Koprowski of the Wistar Institute...
...actually still belonged to the Filipino government. Behind the claim is the fear that Malaysia would not be able to prevent leftists in the federation and in Indonesia from making North Borneo a Communist enclave hard by the Philippines' outer islands. The British government, which is ardently behind Malaya's plans for Malaysia, stiffly rejected the Philippine claim, gave notice that it would push for the final creation of the new nation...