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...hand, snaps some memorable candids of the famed and humble, ranging from Vinoba Bhave, India's post-Gandhi Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953), to Mr. Fu, a Hong Kong opium connoisseur with a palate as refined as that of the most finicky Western vinophile. There is a weatherbeaten Malayan old man of the sea who knows the language of the fish (sharks say "snnnnnng KWAH"). And there is-in perhaps the most haunting portrait of all-modest, bewildered Tenzing Norkay, conqueror of Mount Everest, now half-man and half-God by Asian standards. In his Darjeeling home...
...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; in 1956, accompanied by a troupe of shapely dancing girls, he literally danced the Communist menace out of his corner of the Malayan jungle by throwing one rousing village party after another for villagers throughout his sultanate. He also made friends by promising "more roads, schools and water." and by showing considerable ability as a ruler...
Singapore: In London's Colonial Office, experts last week dickered with 42-year-old Chief Minister Lim Yew Hok, a Malayan-born Chinese they once mistrusted, now respect. Main sticking point in drawing up a constitution for a new state of Singapore: whether Britain should keep police powers in the Red-infested Southeast Asian metropolis (pop. 1,200,000). Probable outcome: a compromise which will give Singapore full self-government but allow British intervention if troublemakers get out of hand...
Malaya: Despite a nine-year-old Communist uprising, Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, a wealthy Malayan Moslem prince, announced that his government would cut British forces in Malaya by 50% and start building its own army after the Federation (pop. 6,200,000) achieves independence next August...
...sake let's enjoy it"), but it is not good enough. They are perpetually in hock to the merchants, forever struggling to make the frayed ends of their tropical pants match their sahib status. Furthermore, there is the new look in colonial policy: Asiatics have become Asians, and Malayan, Eurasian, Chinese or Indian can get away with murder while the British must punish themselves for the smallest conversational indiscretion...