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...Malaya and Singapore today, a mem-sahib is more apt to spend her day screaming at the amah, doing the housework herself, or else trying to poach the perfect gem who works for the Arbuthnots. For the old-style amahs, whose white tunics, black silk pajama trousers and smoothly braided hair made them look like pigtailed penguins, belong to a dying race...
Their places are being taken by a new generation of flibbertigibbets whose minds are apt to be more on men than helping the "mem." Mostly Malayan or Indian girls, with a sprinkling of untrained Chinese, they are prettier and more sophisticated than their forebears -and, say their mems, often downright insolent. For their part, the maids complain bitterly that the rapidly expanding Malayan middle class is even more tyrannical than the bossiest Britons...
...press conference, President Kennedy lit into the travelers for a lack of "concern for the security and foreign policy objectives of the United States" and called their leaders Communists. The excursion, paid for partly by the Castro government, was organized in San Francisco and New York by mem bers of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, long since shown to be supported by Castro cash...
...created a climate of opinion in which serious talk about Christian unity becomes possible. The fourth conference, carrying on the dialogue of the third one, at Lund in 1952, proved more ecumenical, and less Protestant-dominated, than ever. Among representatives of 138 of the World Council's 201 mem ber churches was the first full dele gation of Orthodox theologians: there were 51 of them, including eight from Russia. Also present were 20 Roman Catholic observers-including five appointed by the Vatican-and Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger delivered one of the major addresses...
...World Series of Golf this September, a tournament that pits the winners of the Masters, U.S. and British Opens and the P.G.A. against one another. Because Nicklaus has won two of them, the fourth spot will be decided by a play-off between two other non-P.G.A. mem bers, Jacky Cupit, 25, and Phil Rodgers, 25-and creaky old Arnie Palmer...