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...Rahman flew to London, sat in his hotel suite waiting for the signing ceremony. When a last obstacle appeared, Sandys persuaded Lee to iron it out privately with the Tunku. The final agreement compromised on financial issues. Singapore will loan money to the Borneo territories rather than give it outright, and a federation common market will gradually replace Singapore's freeport status...
...wife, Chicago-born Janet Rosenberg, a onetime Young Communist Leaguer and the colony's most controversial woman, to be Minister of Home Affairs, making her, in effect, British Guiana's top cop. Neither Janet nor her police have been able to quiet things. All that prevents outright racist civil war is the presence of 500 British troops that Jagan called upon to protect his tottering regime...
...boomlet auto town. Mott, who had been trained as a mechanical engineer, was president of the Weston-Mott Co., manufacturers of wheels and axles. General Motors bought him out, made him a director and, in the process, the largest single stockholder in the corporation. Mott still owns outright, or controls in trust, another 800,000 or so G.M. shares, controls several banks, ten municipal water companies, four department stores and a sugar company...
...critical dearth of living space and clear its squalid legacy of slums, Labor promises to commit more public funds to new housing and redevelopment, restore rent controls, and regulate new construction. Labor also aims to break the age-old power of wealthy landowners, who seldom sell property outright but give developers long-term leases on which the landlords continue to collect "ground rent." New legislation would give all leaseholders the right to buy actual "freehold" ownership of their land...
...rising to a pitch not often heard in U.S. politics. Basic to the criticism was the widespread impression (which neither Rocky nor Happy has refuted) that Mrs. Rockefeller surrendered legal custody of her four children by her first marriage. Across the U.S., Republican comments about Rocky raunged from sadness outright hostility v. In Denver, a women