Word: commonwealth
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Quintuplets were expected, quadruplets appeared. That was the story in London last week when government and colonial leaders signed the birth certificate of a new British Commonwealth nation. It was the Federation of Malaysia, which was to be composed of independent Malaya, self-governing Singapore, and the three British territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo. But at the last moment, the oil-sodden sultanate of Brunei pulled out of the agreement in a fit of pique over the final terms of federation...
WALTER HALLSTEIN, president of the European Economic Community..LL.D. Luis MUNOZ MARIN, Governor, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico LL.D...
Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the ministers of the six towns surrounding the College, various neighboring magistrates, and the Harvard Faculty...
...Endicott "Chub" Peabody will arrive at Commencement exercises on Thursday in a horse-drawn Victoria carriage, thus becoming the first chief executive of the Commonwealth since pre-World War I days to come to Harvard Commencement in anything other than an automobile...
...France cannot possibly accept this British behavior." But the shock waves have spread far beyond the Common Market. Britain, which only four months ago had such faith in Europe that it was ready to sunder its ties with the Commonwealth and with the European Free Trade Association, had to swallow its pride in Lisbon last week and make a desperate effort even to keep EFTA together at its first top-level meeting since February. The reason is that Britain's government has accepted the fact that it will probably not enter Europe during De Gaulle's lifetime...