Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wintertime Down Under. The beaches were deserted, the bikinis packed away, the tennis stars halfway around the world at Wimbledon. Both the Sydney press and the Canberra embassy cocktail circuit were hard up for a topic. Then, voila! The Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia disappeared without a trace. Who? Well, actually, even in sleepy Canberra Tun Lim Yew Hock, 51, wasn't exactly well known; but once he had dropped from sight, suddenly almost everyone recalled having seen the dapper, pipe-smoking little diplomat at parties or the Canberra race track where, it was whispered excitedly, he had lost...
...nationwide police dragnet turned up more details. A Sydney newspaperman reported that he had seen the Tun (an aristocratic Malaysian title, though of lower rank than Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's Prime Minister) taking a plane to Sydney under the assumed name "Hawk." Lim Yew Hock turned out to have been a habitue of Sydney's tenderloin King's Cross district, particularly its Paradise Club, which featured Sandra Nelson, 19, the most expansive (43-24-36) stripper in town. Where was Sandra? Also missing; and try as they might, the police couldn't locate...
...wife and his two daughters went on TV with a tearful plea for him to come home. Through a telephone interview with a Sydney editor, even the Tunku made a personal appeal from Kuala Lumpur: "Come back, my dear friend, and I will welcome you. I will be happy to let bygones be bygones." To "supervise the search," the Tunku even sent Malaysia's chief of protocol, Enche Abdul Rahman Jallal, rushing to the scene. Upon arrival, he surprised newsmen with his theory that Lim Yew Hock had perhaps "tripped on a stone, and is now being cared...
...were Phoebe C. Elisworth of Guilford, Conn. (Social Relations); Dana Smith Eisbree of Libonier, Pa. (Government); Penny Hollander Feldman of Silver Springs, Md. (Government); Sheila L. Grinnell of Bronx, N.Y. (English); Joan M. Helpern of New York City (Social Relations); Martha J. Kaplan of Perth Amboy, N.J. (Government); and Sydney Key of Berkeley, Calif, (Economics...
Much gentler is 75-year-old Sydney Clark, whose All the Best books are pleasant introductions to 26 countries. Clark genuinely likes every place he goes, loves to lead his readers to spots that other guides ignore, such as the Buttes-Chaumont Park in Paris' 19th Arrondissement, but gives restaurants little more than a lick and hotels not much more than a promise...