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...young man, the Sultan used to slip from his dull capital of Johore Bharu across the strait to Singapore, where his pursuit of wine, women and song was so uninhibited that annoyed British authorities established a 10 p.m. curfew for the young monarch's own good, and set a brace of policemen on his heels to enforce it. If a car had the temerity to pass him on a Johore highway, the Sultan would improve his marksmanship by shooting its rear tires...
...that the community should leave this responsibility to the merciful feelings of one doctor, or that a patient's escape from suffering should depend on one doctor's views." Instead, he recommended legislation so that "a patient suffering agonies of useless pain from an incurable disease could slip away in peace and dignity with the help of a government-appointed, medically qualified referee. I myself would be willing to give Holy Communion to the patient and to be present with the doctor concerned so as to share the responsibility." It is "nonsense," he added, to hold that death...
Technically, 323 is a fine production. There are some sloppy layouts in the section on professors, a few typographical slip-ups, and some inexcusable group photographs (though group photographs are deadly dull anyway). But the artistic standards are generally high and generally fulfilled. The fact that neither the articles nor the photographs are credited to particular individuals bars some from praise and saves others from censure...
...filing cabinets, 400 chairs, many other odd pieces of old but usable furniture, all destined for the junk heap. Yet the Senators were ordering $113,000 worth of new equipment. And that $150,000 for new carpeting, requested for no better reason than the fact that Government girls might slip and fall on the tile flooring, struck plain-living Senator Douglas as excessive. He offered to buy the girls rubber heels -from his own pocket...
...detective. Ranging from Sacramento to Los Angeles on a three-day visit, Presidential Hopeful Kennedy got such VIP honors as breakfast with Governor Edmund G. Brown and an invitation to address the legislature. But wherever Kennedy wandered, stern-eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions about the 1960 convention, has announced as a favorite son and needs control of California's delegation to keep his leverage...