Word: malaya
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...Five with some chilling effects. The unshakable grip that the International Longshoremen's Union won over the islands' agricultural workers forced wages in the pineapple fields up to an average of $1.78 an hour at the very time when low-wage countries, such as Formosa and Malaya, were invading the pineapple market. As a result, Hawaii's share of world pineapple sales fell from 78% in 1952 to 64% in 1960, and it is still slipping. Similarly, high labor costs restricted Hawaiian sugar sales to the protected U.S. market...
Singapore will now get limited representation in the Malaysian Parliament in exchange for local control over labor and education policies (which it needs to curb Communist influence). By Aug. 31, 1963, the British-run territories of North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei are to com plete the federation with Malaya and Singapore to form a 1.600-mile crescent around the South China...
...campuses. Apart from a few foreigners, the first 100 students are all the children of Americans stationed everywhere from France, Germany and Spain to Iceland, Malaya and Viet...
...Stoically stowing away an on-the-run diet of rice trimmed with goat intestines, chicken heads and "thousand-day-old" eggs, Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver, 46, roughed his way by helicopter and Jeep through a 25-day, 10,000-mile tour of the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and North Borneo to see how his troops were faring. He found them hard at work-so hard that at one Filipino hamlet he got a message from four volunteers saying: "Sorry, but we are too busy to see you." At another village, a volunteer proudly showed Shriver a pungent compost...
...English school at age ten) from "the prison of my Indian boyhood . . . [that] strait-jacket of 19th century compensation fantasies" where "tokens of love, honour, courage" masqueraded "as rules instead of exceptions." Even years later, when he and his men are caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost obsessed, by his childhood's most...