Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last time around. Reversing that margin to win by 1,799 votes, Mrs. Ewing became the first member of the Scottish National Party to go to Britain's Parliament since 1945. "Now it's home rule by 1970," she said, advocating independence for Scotland inside the Commonwealth and a seat in the United Nations betwixt Saudi Arabia and Senegal...
...provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens of America does seem open to question...
...Club shortly after Mrs. Hick's 10 p.m. concession speech, "The world is rotten; rotten right to the middle of the core. It's really rotten." The last few hears haven't been good ones for the people who supported Louise Day Hicks; first the Establishment got the Commonwealth to overturn the Neighborhood School idea with the racial imbalance law; and last night it spoiled the victory party by getting Kevin White elected Mayor. "The Establishment--you know, the bankers and the reporters," said a lady in a frilly blue party dress, "that's what licked...
...that 70 per cent had English trade qualifications, 44 per cent had passed their General Certificate of Education (the British equivalent of a high school diploma) and only 36 per cent had no qualifications. In short, the immigrant labor force, comprised of the more adventuresome and enterprising of the Commonwealth population, is probably better trained than any random group of British or American citizens...
There has not always been a truce between the parties. The Conservatives' Immigration Control Act of 1962 sparked a vitriolic debate in all Commonwealth nations. It was the first measure designed to curb the influx of colored immigrants from the Commonwealth countries into Britain, and the Labor party vehemently accused the Tories of racism, putting petty self-interest over and above the special bond between mother country and Commonwealth, and maliciously slamming the ceiling on any Commonwealth subject who wanted to better his economic situation by emigrating...