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...Mauritius, said Delegate King, "I am afraid the original inhabitants were all liquidated within a few years of the arrival of the first explorers. They were birds of the species Dodo,* which is extinct and thus unable to press its claim to be granted independence on the basis of one bird, one vote." As for the Seychelles, King pointed out, "the original inhabitants were giant tortoises. Fortunately, these are not completely extinct, but they have shown no interest in political advance." On St. Helena, "the first explorers record the presence of pheasants, partridges and other birds, including the wide-awake...
After her retirement from politics in 1945, she described herself as an "extinct volcano"-but it was not quiet for long. Until very recently, Nancy Astor remained her animated, voluble, rapier-tongued but warmhearted self...
...Earl Jones are enormously skillful. At first Cannon seems considerate, practical, matter-of-fact, and then his nerves start to sing like high-tension wires. The playgoer senses that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater...
...House Boards now assume the role of the extinct Board of Hall in treating social violations that deserve a penalty of more than five social pro's each of which requires staying in one weekend night. The case is brought up by the "defendant's dormitory president. A girl who feels that her dormitory committee has judged an infringement unfairly may also appeal to the House Judicial Board. The Boards consist, with some variation in each House, of the dormitory presidents, the house dean, and the head resident of the accused student...
Most other observers agree. One of the most intelligent of all new African leaders, Teetotaler Kaunda, who was trained as a teacher, has staunchly forsworn violence in the ten-year struggle to dissolve the now-extinct Central African Federation, in which Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were reluctant partners with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia. Zambia, as Northern Rhodesia will be called after independence, will be a multiracial society in which, promises Kaunda, "the rule of law shall prevail and no individual is going to be victimized because of his country of origin...