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...varsity Rugby team opens its season this afternoon on the House football field at 2:30 when it opposes M.I.T. The Engineers, despite a slight training edge gained during competition in Bermuda which the Crimson did not enjoy, will be the underdogs. The second squad will travel to Amherst to play a powerful Lord Jeff "second" team...
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, leader of Canada's all-conquering Progressive Conservative Party, flew off to Bermuda last week in a happy haze of fatigue and felicitations, more than ready to soak up a few days of sunlight before tackling his country's lowering problems of recession and unemployment. Behind him was the most dramatic election landslide in Canada's history, a coast-to-coast sweep that carried Tory M.P.s into 208 of the House of Commons' 265 seats, and cut the combined opposition down to a hapless...
...occasion was one to stir the hearts of all the Queen's loyal subjects in Bermuda, certainly the oldest and quite possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton Harbor, and no less a personage than the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle...
...interesting enough-a rambling argument that the good old colonial days were over and, what is more, never were that good. Most of the original settlers, the News cheerfully observed, ''would have sold their British heritage for a bottle of rum." Now, the editorial continued, "H.M.S. Bermuda comes to wave the Union Jack at us, but even that is little more than a symbol of has-beens and a voice from the past. For good or ill, Bermuda's face is turned westward. To America she looks for protection, to her tourists for her livelihood." New British...
Sputtering over their gin and tonics, flushed with rage to the color of their rum Cokes, the loyal colonials directed a flood of letters and telephone calls to the News's managing director, Seward Toddings. He was invited to "come to the Queen of Bermuda and bring a piece of rope." He was advised that he should be operating a furnace in hell instead of a newspaper. The House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended...