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...ends our Senate," said the antigovernment newspaper the Rand Daily Mail. The way is clear for Strydom to abolish the franchise of the last of South Africa's 8,500,000 nonwhites, and to enact apartheid and the total "master rule" of whites that he has preached so long. The way is also clear, at some future time, to proclaim a republic and make Afrikaans the only official language of the land. If the prospect disconcerted other English-speaking South Africans than a few Black Sashers, they were too despairing, or too interested in not rocking the boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: So Ends Our Senate | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...order not to harm football by comparison, soccer has raised the requirements for its letters this fall. Cross country's are already considered high enough. The last barriers separating these sports from football in status, if not in popularity, therefore have fallen away. The faculty should abolish this distinction, and get set for the time when winter teams begin to clamor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Hurdle | 11/1/1955 | See Source »

...addition, Morse said that he has formulated a proposal calling for international action to abolish forced labor. He will present his plan, he said, for consideration at the annual ILO general conference in Geneva next June. Beyond stating that opposition to slave labor should be implemented in a formal worldwide convention, Morse declined to elaborate on his plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Head of ILO Stresses Importance Of Unofficial International Bodies | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

...starts a new stage, constitutional in nature and free from revolutions, because revolution cannot be the permanent situation in a country." Therefore, the Strongman said, he was going to step out of the party and "become the President of all Argentines, friends and enemies." He promised, moreover, to "abolish all restrictions that we have imposed on the country" and give the opposition "all liberties within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Peacemaker at Work | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...undergraduate was reminded of the football season, even in the spring, when Harvard and Yale agreed to abolish scouting for one year on an experimental basis. The Athletic Directors made the move in the hope of preserving amicable relations with the New Haven University, focusing perhaps an uneasy eye on the situation that had culminated in the Princeton trouble...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: 1930's First Years: Quiet Traditions and Uncivilized Eating | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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