Word: briton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding Mr. Alistair Cooke's remarks on British correspondents, and in particular Mr. Don Iddon. I am a Briton by birth and recently spent over two years back in England, where I was appalled at what Mr. Iddon wrote in his columns about the American way of life...
Last month flaxen-haired Mike Hawthorn, 29, became the first Briton to win the world's driving championship (by a single point over Britain's Stirling Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi Musso, Hawthorn decided to devote his energies to his garage in Surrey. Said the champion: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself, except that it's better to get out when...
White officials presented Briton Pirie with a plaque to mark his visit. Brusquely Pirie turned and handed it over to Muleya. Said Negro Leader Stanlake Samkange: "Muleya did more for good race relations in under a quarter of an hour than hundreds of twittering interracialists have achieved in the last five years." Even Bill DuBois was chastened. Said he ruefully: "It was a great race. The day of multiracial athletics is here, I'm afraid...
Softened Impact? Board Member Adams and John Marshall Principal Mrs. Florence Hornung charged that much of Allen's series was untrue, but refused to point out any specifics. Reporter Allen, a Briton whose application for U.S. citizenship is pending, stuck to his guns, defended the truth of his series and the propriety of his espionage. The Telegram stood by what it had printed. Said one editor: "We studied every article carefully and toned down all of them. Conditions are much worse than what we said." Superintendent John Theobald complained, but the Telegram planned to let Allen's expos...
...diplomatic turnout in Peking a year ago, Mao peered up at a towering Briton and jovially remarked: "It's not that you are so tall. It is just that we, at the moment, are too short." That Mao has started China growing again is a fact of incalculable importance. If human beings can be reduced to mindless production-line cogs, Red China may one day achieve the stature for which its rulers yearn. But, so far. the crucial elements of Chinese Communist power are still supplied by Russia. It was not Chinese strength but the fear of Russian involvement...