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Last week a foursome at Selangor's ninth hole was surprised to see a squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
...today has deep admiration for the vigor of his brushwork, his near-abstract paintings of nature, and his suggestive ambiguity of object and reflection.* Putting the final stamp of approval on Monet for the avant-garde is Manhattan Critic Clement Greenberg, who in praising Monet's "free, calligraphic brush-work and loose, tonal delineation of form," now confirms that much modern U.S. painting needs a new name: "abstract impressionism...
Greener Mansions. Late one night last week the winds, whipping across the tinder-dry, drought-grey brush and scrubland of the foothills, picked up a flicker of fire on the slope called Zuma Ridge. Instantly, a mass of blood-red flames burst forth like an explosion. Soon, the winds pushed the flames down the ridge toward the highway and the sea, then fanned the flames north and east, chewing up everything that lay in their path...
...week's end the brush fires, burning low, had killed one man, injured 75 (mostly firefighters), blackened 40,000 acres, leveled 67 homes and other structures. Estimated cost of the damage to buildings and land: $100 million...
...August, hailed the correspondents' arrival in Peking as a Worthy cause. While they have grudgingly gone along with the State Department's ban, they see little point in its contention that lifting the ban would prejudice attempts to free U.S. prisoners held by the Chinese. Newsmen also brush aside the State Department's argument that reporters in China might be held as hostages. They are willing to waive any potential claim against the U.S. Government-as Bill Worthy did-in the event that the Communists jail them...