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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the "secretarial rooms" are full, the M.P. and his staff descend to one of the stifling little cubicles located in an area called "Queen Mary." Five years ago a parliamentary select committee complained of the "bad ventilation" of these cubicles, and last week Minister of Works Lord John Hope solemnly noted that one recommendation this committee made was to have the doors of four of the cubicles removed. Though reform went through, most Members still prefer to do their dictating in an airier place-on a bench in the House of Commons lobby...
Southward to Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy...
...Overhead, imported skywriters drew a palm tree in the sky, symbol of Zik's free-spending opponent, Obafemi Awolowo, premier of the Western Region. Twelve busloads of ringers from Ghana were discovered just in time, and turned back at the border before they could vote. In one outlying area, four chiefs were arrested for registering 500 children under ten years old. In Lagos, pols tried to register an entire high school en masse...
Contagion. Some of the oil fever rubbed off on bureaucratic, bumbling YPF. "The Americans are teaching us many new ways," said a YPF engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget, YPF will drill 4,100 wells on its own by 1965, has let contracts to Kerr-McGee, Southeastern Drilling and the Italian ENI for another...
...Wait to Die? Dana gets as much fun out of giving as he did out of getting. He was to both manners born, in New York City's fashionable Gramercy Park area of the 1880s. His wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state...