Word: sarawak
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...from repairing bicycles in Kenya to aiding sick Eskimos in Labrador. Wrote one Southeast Asian official: "Send us the best you have, as many as possible, and as quickly as you can." The stripling volunteers have shouldered responsibilities that would turn a grownup grey-or green with envy. In Sarawak, a 19-year-old boy, lately a factory apprentice, is in sole charge of a primary school, a first-aid clinic and a rubber plantation. In the Solomon Islands, one pink-cheeked girl recently delivered a native woman's twins. In British Guiana, a 19-year...
Paddy Poopers. In Bario, Sarawak, a plague of rice-ravaging rats and mice pooped out after the British Royal Air Force parachuted a platoon of cats into the area...
...tiny Sultanate of Brunei, adjoining Sarawak on the northwest coast of Borneo, was once a great, warlike nation. In the 16th century its navies spread terror through the Java and Malacca Seas. But Brunei, like many of its neighbors in Malaysia, fell upon hard times. Its fleets rotted away; fierce Sulu pirates came to take its strongest people captive and sell them in the slave markets. In the middle of the last century, Brunei was forced to seek protection from another island kingdom, Great Britain, whose fleets were in better shape. As recently as 25 years ago, once proud Brunei...
Divorced. Elizabeth Brooke ("Princess Pearl"), 33, second daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, former Raja of Sarawak (he ceded his 50,000-square-mile territory to Great Britain seven months ago); by Harry ("Little Hotcha Muchacha") Roy, 46, pint-sized British bandleader (he composed their wedding march, Sarawaki); after twelve years of marriage, two children ; in London...
Leonora Margaret, 35-year-old dowager Countess of Inchcape (newspaper nickname: "Princess Gold") and eldest of the abdicating Raja of Sarawak's three marrying daughters,* prepared to marry a 49-year-old divorced Vermonter in London (and incidentally forfeit a $12,000 widow's annuity). The groom-to-be: plump Colonel Francis P. Tompkins, lifetime Army man, pre-D-day Counter-intelligence planning chief...