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...Anyone? Back home, the Deputy Fon of Bafut got a Blimpish reception from the city fathers when he offered his adoptive town of Bournemouth a ready-made menagerie: "There had never been a zoo in the town ever since it had become a town, and so they did not see why there should be one now." For a year, Durrell almost literally had a zoo in his luggage. Then a 17th century mansion on the Channel island of Jersey was ceded to the animal kingdom...
...bloodlines pure, frolicsome, Cambridge-educated King Freddie, Kabaka of Buganda (pop. about 1,500,000) in the British protectorate of Uganda, moved swiftly to preserve black supremacy. Days after younger brother Prince Henry, 31, had defied a sibling caveat and married 17-year-old Carol Ann Whitey. a Bournemouth art student, Freddie's parliament notified the bridegroom: "As you have married an English girl, neither your children nor your grandchildren can be recognized as being in the direct line of succession to the Kabakaship...
...will accept all or part of the Jenkins bill. But if the reform fails, Publishers George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson risk prosecution should they bring out Lolita. The matter is complicated by the fact that Nicolson, 42, is also an M.P., who was previously in trouble with his local Bournemouth Conservative Association for opposing government policy on Suez (TiME, Feb. 2). Admitted a Conservative M.P. last week: "Lolita is the main issue. Suez has been replaced." Said a local politico: "A director of a firm intending to publish this vulgar novel is no fitting representative for good Bournemouth citizens...
...previous bids for a seat in Parliament, only one was successful -and that was during Britain's World War II political truce. Years ago, contending for Liverpool, he had said: "I don't want to go into Parliament to represent a lot of stuffy old ladies in Bournemouth. I want to fight for really hard-pressed people." Worse yet, though he was originally a staunch supporter of the Suez invasion, Randolph had recently embarrassed the Macmillan government by a series of newspaper articles attacking the inept military and political management of that operation...
Truce. In London the Tory Party's inner council reacted to news of Randolph's foray into Bournemouth like a military headquarters that has just learned of an enemy breakthrough. Party Chairman Lord Hailsham galloped off to Bournemouth posthaste. At week's end, in a tense, three-hour session with Bournemouth Tory leaders. Hailsham persuaded them to accept the hated Nigel Nicolson again, if a private postal poll shows that he would win a majority of the 7,500 Tory voters in the. constituency...