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...also an excellent curry cook. With his third wife, Sharifah Rodzia, and their four adopted children (two of whom are Chinese),* the Tunku leads a life of cheerful disorder in Kuala Lumpur's open, airy Prime Minister's residence, allows the 70 children of his servants the run of the house; visiting diplomats are often surprised during a conference to see a servant's child wander into the sitting room and climb up onto the Tunku...
...unexpectedly, the playboy prince flunked his bar exams. So far down the line of succession that he had no chance of ever attaining his father's sultanate, the Tunku returned to Malaya as a minor civil servant in a number of remote outposts. On foot and on elephant, he traveled through the bush getting to know the land and the people, once even worked as a manual laborer to help build a new mosque, which the grateful Malays named Rahmaniah after...
...treasure: the data for a top-secret report on Britain's rail system prepared by burly, brusque Dr. Richard Beeching, 49, who resigned two years ago as technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries to become the nation's rail-car czar and the highest-paid civil servant ($67,000 a year) in British history. Last week the report was finally made public, and Beeching's thoroughgoing case for a historic revamping of Britain's railway system proved so compelling that the expected grumbles were outnumbered by the cheers. Said the Daily Mirror: "It's tough...
...given lip service in the federal capital at Ottawa, is ignored throughout the rest of the nation; that even their own province's economy is dominated by English-speaking Canadians. To War-No! Caouette shares their insecurity and makes it his platform. The son of a Quebec civil servant and the fourth of 15 children, he was forced by pinched family finances to give up a classical education and go to commercial school. He struggled to run a grocery store, sold used cars, finally became a Chrysler dealer in the town of Rouyn (pop. 18,500), 320 miles northwest...
...Pariah & Servant. The richest of York's moneylenders was Baruch of Northstreet. He flaunted his wealth on his bejeweled fingers, had no qualms about cheating the Christians who kept him a social pariah. But Baruch's son Abram was his father's despair. A failed rabbi, Abram despised Baruch's vanity and usury, refused to learn the lending trade, struck up a friendship and a religious dialogue with a simple Catholic monk. To the consternation of his parents. Abram also gradually fell in love with Bett, their poor Christian servant girl...