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...British have long since learned that they cannot do anything about Amin. At the moment, they are concerned about a related problem: how to keep him from paying them an unwanted visit. Like other Commonwealth leaders, Amin plans to attend a meeting of Commonwealth nations in London next June. Prime Minister Callaghan has promised to see if the 35 other Commonwealth governments would tolerate Amin's presence, and he devoutly hopes that those leaders will themselves disinvite their colleague. Characteristically, Big Daddy has already let it be known that he will bring a retinue of 250 people, including...
Calhoun describes Feloney's court as "one of the best in the Commonwealth. In a system that is not standardized, where fiefdoms and mini-kingdoms abound because of life-time appointments, Judge Feloney has proved a benevolent baron...
However, noted philosopher, designer, inventor, father of the geodesic dome, and author of Spaceship Earth and other books, Buckminster Fuller, will lecture on Friday, Feb. 11 which, believe it or not, is Bucky Fuller Day in Boston, at 7:30, at B.U.'s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston. Mayors Kevin White and A1 Velucci will present the Milton, Mass. native with a grand proclamation on the occasion of his 50th anniversary. 50th anniversary of what, you ask? Back in 1927 at age 18, Fuller declared his intellectual independence from the rest of organized society and proclaimed himself...
...government-free, tolerant society, liberated from nature by an advanced technology, as its ideal. A 90-minute film of Fuller's life and work will complete the show, which costs $2 if you're a student. Festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. in B.U.'s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Ave., in Boston. But if Bucky's whole holy holism really excites you, you can spend $25.00 to attend one of the seminars the luminary will produce at the Science Center at Harvard over the weekend, or $60.00 to attend the whole three-night shebang. Call 9654491 for further details about...
...Powell first brought Britain's race question out of the limbo to which other politicians had tacitly consigned it. The Nationality Act, he argued, was flooding London and Midlands ghettos with Indian, Pakistani, African and West Indian immigrants, who could claim British citizenship on the basis of their Commonwealth status. Within 15 or 20 years, he declared, there would be a horde of 3.5 million coloreds in Britain, and one day they would precipitate a bloody race war. (In the nine years since that speech, the country's non-white population has more than doubled, to nearly...