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Ultimately, Malaysia's success depends in large measure on its chief architect, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, who at 59 is troubled by insomnia and is perceptibly slowing down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: A Good Start | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

Good for All. As chairman of Guthrie, Sir John spends only one month each year on the Malayan plantations−the rest of the time his eye roves world markets from Guthrie's London headquarters−but he is deeply involved in Malayan affairs. Even before there was serious pressure for Malayan independence, he began training local men to take a hand in plantation management. At great cost, he pioneered the development of new grafting techniques and agricultural hormones that have produced higher-yielding rubber trees. By sharing his developments with the official Malayan rubber research agen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: The Last Big Sir | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...kind of partnership for productivity has paid healthy dividends. Three years ago, Malaya displaced Indonesia−which had nationalized its rubber plantations−as the world's biggest producer of natural rubber. Last year, producing more than a third of the world's natural rub ber, the Malayan plantations brought in a fourth of the new nation's income. Be cause of rubber, Malayans enjoyed a high (for Asia) per capita income of $113, v. $40 for neighboring Indonesians. And because of this strong economy, Malaya may well be able to expand. Last week Britain agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: The Last Big Sir | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

...prevent Singapore from becoming an Asian Cuba off Malaya's coast and to stimulate the development of the backward Borneo territories, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman last year proposed a sensible solution: the formation of a Malaysian Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Merger Is a Must | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...drawing to see who would actually get the coveted shares. The reason for all the enthusiasm: since Palmer, a New Zealand-born corporation lawyer, joined Ready Mixed as a director in 1945, the company has expanded into eight foreign countries, now controls 186 concrete plants, 40 quarries and a Malayan tin mine. Last year Ready Mixed doubled its profit to $2,400,000. Placid Chairman Palmer, who meticulously limits himself to an eight-hour workday and refuses to take papers home, intends to maintain the same headlong expansion into any area "where labor is costly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Personal File: Jun. 1, 1962 | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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