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...sort of friendly Freddie that P. G. Wodehouse likes to write about. A graduate of Oxford and the army, he takes a job at the missile works run by his uncle (Dennis Price), who suggests he start at the bottom. So the hero goes blithely to work in the dispatch bay, while Director John Boulting goes slyly to work on the spivs he sees at both ends of Britain's social scale-on the unions that leave a worker free to join or starve and don't care if production goes up so long as wages...
Most Southern editorial pages simply ignored South Africa. Some took refuge in the obvious: observed the Richmond Times Dispatch, "The attempted assassination of Prime Minister Verwoerd emphasizes once again the explosive nature of South Africa's dilemma." There were a few scattered voices of reason. Inquired the Tampa Tribune: "How could the white supremacists expect the Negroes to submit indefinitely to degradation and oppression in their own land...
Critical copy has been rare and mild. To Nossal, "gentle" was the word for Red Chinese thought control. In another dispatch he wrote: "Here in China, if the weaklings (or rightists or anyone who isn't for the ruling circles) make too much noise, they are silenced smartly." Then he added: "Any Western commentators who suggest that the masters of Peking do away with their critics are talking utter nonsense...
...transferred from the cemetery to the Pantheon of Heroes in Caracas, resting place of Bolivar and the rest of Venezuela's great. In preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion. Sucre's citizens hinted darkly that Caracas was in no hurry to put Garcia in the mausoleum beside Bolivar and other gran senor heroes...
Besides being old hands at TIME, all three of the top team are former newspapermen. Roy Alexander, a graduate of St. Louis University ('18), was assistant city editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before he joined TIME in 1939. Harvardman ('32, president of the Crimson) Otto Fuerbringer, a native St. Louisan, was a reporter, political writer and art columnist on the Post-Dispatch before he came to TIME in 1942. Tom Griffith, a graduate of the University of Washington ('36) and Harvard Nieman Fellow, was on the staff of the Seattle Times for six years...