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...backed plans favoring the majority, including one to make Malay the official school and government language. The poorer, more rural Malays became jealous of Chinese and Indian prosperity. Perhaps the Alliance's greatest failing was that it served to benefit primarily those at the top. It was not unheard of for a government official to discover a new car in his garage, its donor a mystery until a Chinese towkay (rich merchant) mentioned it offhandedly-and then perhaps asked for a favor. For a Chinese or Indian who was not well-off, or for a Malay...
...boisterously at one point that authorities had to draw the curtains on the stage to allow the competitors to concentrate. Petrosian, who likes to stroll about or read the newspaper between moves in less important matches, slipped off to watch a hockey game between championship rounds, a practice unheard of for competing chess champions, who supposedly must keep their minds riveted to the board...
...gang all pitched in and worked harder than they ever had before. Even in bankruptcy they managed to publish three issues of the magazine, each one on time (unheard of for the gang!), each less irresponsible and hysterical than the last. "We're less campy," says Editor Bob Scheer, "and less smartass. There's more emphasis on research and getting the facts. We've increased our range-music, the arts, and so forth...
...that he did for the family. He set them up with ten French-speaking servants in his mansion on 46th Street in Manhattan, bequeathing them a luxurious life-style that included a listing in the Social Register and a spuriously noble family tree-an embellishment not unheard of in those days among Americans with pretensions. One of the Auchinclosses, John Davis notes, concocted a chart tracing the family's descent from the royal lines of England, Scotland and France...
...good to see the recent return to normalcy. Damn good. Things were all messed up, and there seemed to be no direction to what was happening. But then Elvis returned to the charts. After that, the Sox and Senators started winning. And now, after unheard of success by Penn teams in competition with Harvard, coach Harry Parker sent his heavyweight crew out to right matters. Equality can be a good thing, but when Harvard starts losing to the Quakers in all manner of sports, I think things have gone...