Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory that the earth's rainfall is strongly influenced by showers of space dust, most meteorologists howled him down. But Welsh-born Bowen is hard to discourage. For eight years, whenever he could take time from his job as chief of the Radiophysics Division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, he searched for evidence to buttress his argument. He found a hopeful amount, and by last week Physicist Bowen had become something of a meteorological hero. After hearing Bowen talk at the International Conference of Cloud Physics in Australia, Meteorologist Dwight B. Kline...
...first day in court, Assistant Attorney General Leo Sontag Ll.B. '48 had rested the Commonwealth's case with a presentation of Tropic as his prime exhibit. Sontag feels that he needs no witnesses to establish the book's obscenity. Thus the trial consists almost entirely of examination and cross-examination of the defense's witnesses...
...market for non-British goods in other Commonwealth nations is likely to increase. As part of the price of entry into the Market, Britain will probably have to give somewhat less preferential treatment to Australia, Canada, India and the other Commonwealth countries. As Brit ain buys less from them, they will buy less from Britain. Already some Midwestern manufacturers believe that Canada may quickly open up to more imports from the U.S. tool and die industry. On the other hand, there will be stiffer competition in markets of the Commonwealth from such Common Market powers as Germany, France and Italy...
...Commonwealth, which now sends its exports into Britain under preferentially low tariffs, acted predictably with less enthusiasm. In New Zealand the Christchurch Press, which speaks for the country's farms that now send some 90% of their meat and dairy produce to Britain, mourned that "the easy years may be over; and they have been easy years." Australia, though worried, made the best of it. "We hope, with the assistance of Britain," said Prime Minister Menzies, "to be participants in the negotiations, which I believe to be the most important in time of peace in my lifetime...
...more and more Englishmen find themselves living alongside new neighbors who look frightfully alien. In the first five months of this year, 38,700 immigrants came from the West Indies. India and Pakistan-84% more than the same period last year. There is no legal barrier to immigration from Commonwealth countries. The government, worried by the increase, officially talks of finding a solution "as friendly to these people as we can and not based on color prejudice alone...