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...film contracts, some girls would not stop at nothing-since they had nothing to begin with. At least half were caught with extra added attractions, and what had looked like 36-23-36 was really an unfalsied 23-23-23. From Rangoon's Myint Myint May (Miss Burma) to Utah's Linda Bement (Miss U.S.A.), the girls posed endlessly in the Miami sun, gorged U.S. newspapers with grilled cheese. At week's end, Miss U.S.A. was the winner...
...Burma and Malaya have wiped out practically all the Communist revolutionaries that had disrupted orderly society...
...loss of face." But from surprising quarters of Asia came indications that, far from taking any pleasure in U.S. discomfiture, even some neutralists found in it food for sober thought about Communist imperialism. Declared Rangoon's Guardian: "The lesson of Japan is all too plain to us in Burma and in the smaller countries of Asia. None of us can afford to give the least ground to those who think nothing of using violence to force their aims and objects on a peaceable majority...
National elections in Britain and France are run off in three to six weeks. Even in such leisurely Oriental nations as Burma and Cambodia, where political campaigns are measured off by astrologers, an election is no more time-consuming than two months. In an age of jet planes and television, and short-order speeches by ghosts, say the critics, U.S. campaigns are as outmoded as the Stanley Steamer...
...male figure smiling uneasily in the midst of these splendid figures is a male Mitford of whom nobody has ever heard. He is Tom, a barrister who was killed in Burma...