Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kumasi last week two wigged British barristers, both of them Queen's Counsels, fought a bitter battle before barelegged, toga-clad blacks to determine the right of the deported Moslems to return to Ghana. For Nkrumah's government, portly Attorney General Geoffrey Bing (TIME, Sept. 30) argued that Ghana's Parliament has "absolute and complete power to legislate on any subject whatever," and no court may review any act not specifically forbidden by the constitution...
...absent opposition leaders, Lawyer Phineas Quass, a birdlike little man who had arrived from London only the previous week, insisted sharply: "This statute breaks two fundamental rights of a citizen, namely, to live in his own country, and to have access to the courts." For the government, Bing cited Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, the Kabaka of Buganda and Bechuanaland's Seretse Khama as individuals who had been deported under British parliamentary rule. Retorted Quass: "I know of no precedent for suggesting that [the constitution's] words-'Peace, order and good government'-have been used anywhere...
...hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time in three years) to present Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong in a $400,000 production choreographed by Eugene Loring-whose dances gave last week's Crescendo, a big CBS variety show, some of its infrequent high moments. ¶ Standard Oil's (NJ.) $600,000 75th Anniversary Show, to be staged...
...first sought to minimize its misgivings (TIME, Sept. 2). What particularly raised British hackles was an awareness that actions in Accra were not just the doing of a headstrong Nkrumah but were shrewdly encouraged by a white eminence, Ghana's recently appointed Attorney General, Ulster-born Geoffrey Bing...
...Bing, 48, is a stocky, Oxford-educated lawyer who made a name as one of Britain's most left-wing Laborite M.P.s after the war. But even before his Essex working-class constituents got fed up with his specious defenses of Communist grabs in Czechoslovakia and Korea and turned him out of office, Bing had begun commuting to West Africa to take profitable legal cases for several men later prominent in Ghana politics. By the time Ghana was set to go it alone, he was already established as an intimate adviser to Prime Minister Nkrumah, reportedly not only drafting...