Word: malayans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told in the first person and appear in chronological order. As such, they are links in Alec Waugh's own footloose life, beginning with his callow saunterings through Soho restaurants and Mayfair drawing rooms and ending with surprise encounters in tropic seas. As Alec Waugh sojourns from Malayan rice fields to Levantine hospitals, from German opera houses to sleepy islands in the Indian Ocean, his plots rise happily out of the travelogue prose. In The Last Chukka, the British manager of a Siamese lumber camp imagines that he has leprosy and goes jungle-crazy; in "Tahiti Waits," a young...
After the brutalities had gone on for weeks, U.N. Malayan troops finally got moving. They shepherded 35 missionaries into a hotel in the town of Kindu, got 20 out to Leopoldville. No one died, though a nun whose breasts were badly burned with lighted cigarettes wakes up at night screaming at the memory. The U.S. last week protested the "outrages" and demanded that the culprits be brought to justice. But 250 missionaries were still trapped in Kivu...
...sober, intelligent administrators are supported by a 40-to-11 parliamentary majority and an economy that provides Asia's second highest per capita income ($400). They are hopeful that by the time their first term is up in 1964, they can win membership in the Malayan Federation-not by revolutionary exertions but by evolutionary responsibility...
Singapore was a fortress of paper-endless reams of paper that issued from British information offices assuring the world that Singapore was invincible. Confident that a constant boast of strength would impress the Japanese, the British encouraged "a complacency more impenetrable than the Malayan jungle." So writes Author Attiwill, who was there as a British soldier when Singapore fell in 1942 and vowed one day to tell the whole story...
...ornate palace overlooking surprisingly modern Kuala Lumpur, the nine hereditary sultans of the federated Malayan states met fortnight ago to hold a thoroughly modern election. By secret vote of his peers, Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, 61, Sultan of Selangor, was elected to the five-year rotating kingship of independent Malaya, succeeding the late Tuan-ku Abdul Rahman. Gravely, the new king, who once operated a sporting-goods store and now raises rare orchids in his palace gardens, inscribed his name in a silver-bound book. Last week he went before Malaya's democratically elected Parliament to announce some good...