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Follow That Dream (United Artists). "Ennabody evah tell yew yo're hayand-some?" drawls a slinky Southern belle as she takes after Elvis Presley "like he come with green coupons." Elvis thoughtfully replies: "Only girls." The girls may or may not be right, but for one reason or another people pay good money to see Elvis Presley pictures. In this one, which is slightly better than most, Elvis plays a Georgia redneck who stakes out a homestead on state land in Florida. He is weak in the head but strong in the arm. When the state highway department tries...
...spot he's in-"So please come! Ya gotta come!" But Mantle and Maris only shake their heads sadly; and then Mantle, with a wisdom that few fans have suspected him of concealing, gives Hutch a few pointers on the great game of life. "Hutch," he drawls stolidly, "yew lied. Now son, yew cain't make a foul ball faar, jes' by movin' the baselines...
...says Hutch. "What shall I do?" "Face up," Mantle replies. "Face up tew whut yew've done...
...across the bridge on Asia's mainland, have quietly discussed a merger of the two territories in a "Malaysian" federation. Unwitting spurs to the scheme are Singapore's Red-leaning, left-wing extremists (mostly Chinese), whose rising influence threatens the regime of moderate Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and could stall Singapore's slow but steady move from British colonial status toward full independence. Fearful of chaos ahead, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman now shares Lee's view that Singapore's Communists can be stopped only if the two territories join forces...
Chief worry is not the eleven states of the federation itself, but the neighboring autonomous state of Singapore, where Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew struggles to keep tenuous control over a noisy leftist opposition. To reinforce his moderates and keep Singapore out of the hands of the leftists, Lee has long sought to merge Singapore with stable Malaya. Until recently, Abdul Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution...