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...please the local white population, but it dismayed London. Though committed to the federation, the Colonial Office is beginning to have regrets that it had ever agreed to the idea. The Spectator took Britain to task for bundling Nyasaland "huggermugger into an unwilling association with the Rhodesias." The Daily Mirror demanded that the government make it absolutely clear that Britain would never abandon the Nyasas "to the control of local whites," lest one more Union of South Africa be born...
Pickup. In Ashland, Ky., Motorist W. S. Patton kept looking in his rear view mirror, wondered why a light truck was following him so closely, finally discovered that the truck had no driver, had been hooked to his bumper since he backed into it in a parking space...
...Beaverbrook empire (four papers with a total circulation of more than 8,000,000); buxom, blonde Eileen Ascroft, forty-sixish, who will leave Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April to primp up the score of dowdy women's magazines that Press Lord Cecil King (the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group) got when he bought Amalgamated Press...
Work on the rocket itself and instruments other than the telescope will be undertaken by the government. The telescope will have an eight-inch parabolic mirror, reflecting into a television camera, supplied with selective radiation filters...
...tirelessly, sinuously. Blue silken turbans, spangled with gold, flashed in the blazing sun, as they stomped, glided, clapped their hands and leaped about. The clanking of the xylophones rose to fever pitch, then died away. Three griots (West African minstrels )-one in a leather cape adorned with bits of mirror, another carrying a musket, and the third strumming on a one-string gourd guitar-wailed out a chant in honor of the man who for two solid hours had been the center of all the attention. Finally. Sekou Toure. 37. President of the new Republic of Guinea, a trim figure...