Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor's waiting room in rural England is taking the place once occupied by the vicarage, says British Journalist Ronald Duncan in Punch. "As any doctor will now confirm, at least 20% of his patients are not suffering from any physical ailment whatever. These people go regularly to the doctor on any excuse, but the reason for their attendance in the congregation within the waiting room is that they are seeking from the doctor the sort of spiritual comfort and personal guidance which, a few generations ago, they used to obtain from the priest...
Kiss & Rule. Leader after leader rose to explain what one protesting resolution called "the government's apparent inability to reverse trends resulting from Socialist maladministration" and to "use its strong majority to implement more forcibly its election promises." Minister of Housing and Local Government Duncan Sandys pledged that he would decontrol 10 million rent-controlled houses. Chan cellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan delivered a lengthy appeal for his plan to take Britain into a new European free-trade area (TIME, Oct. 15). But by far the most ringing response to the rank and file's complaints came...
...Sheriff Duncan Harper is too highprincipled to let anything illegal alone. So Bootlegger Tallant fights him. His weapon: Beckwith Dozer, a Negro stubborn enough to demand his "rights" and supple enough to let the embattled white men think they are using him. Tallant intends only to discredit the sheriff by forcing him to defend an "uppity" Negro. But the design gets out of hand when Tallant is shot by a shady associate. Dozer is suspected, and Sheriff Harper, trying to drive Dozer to safety in the next county, is killed when a slashed front tire blows...
Minister Eden-Christ Church men at that, should countenance "this thing." He added darkly: "Duncan Sandys, brash, hard-faced, inhuman man that he is, was doubtless able to push it through because the Cabinet was exhausted by the Suez crisis...
Magdalen Madness. The "thing" that rocked Oxford (pop. 98,675) to its 12th century foundations last week was Duncan Sandys' audacious scheme, as Housing and Local Government Minister, for solving Oxford's appalling traffic problem. Ever since automobile and steelmaking factories sprang up around old Oxford's spires a generation ago, practically everybody has agreed that something must be done about diverting cars, trucks and buses from High Street before they shake down the ancient towers that line...