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Martin Luther King could knock off two categories at once--three, if his Christian names are any indication of his ancestry. Others up for grabs are Edward Brooke, Attorney General of the Commonwealth; Thurgood Marshall. United States Judge for the Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; Marian Anderson; Constance Baker Motley, president of the borough of Manhattan; Sonny Liston, recently retired; and Warren G. Harding...
...House and Cambridge; James L. Turk '65, of Dudley House and Arnold, Pa.; John E. Veblen '65, of Winthrop House and Seattle, Wash.; and Bunil Yang '65, of Dunster House and Levittown, Pa. The Knox winners each receive $3000 to study one year at a University in the British Commonwealth...
...influx swelled, and wives and families began to immigrate along with students and bachelors, Parliament passed the 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, which for the first time limited the free entry into Britain of Her Majesty's subjects from her outer domains. Even that did not stop it. Aided by loopholes in the law and a high birth rate, the number of nonwhites living in Britain since 1962 has doubled to what is darkly referred to as "the dark million." Nearly half (about 450,000) of them are West Indians, with the remainder about equally divided among Indians, Pakistanis...
...riots in Nottingham and London's Netting Hill and Paddington districts. Since then, there have been no major outbreaks, but the underlying resentment remains strong, and both political parties have been understandably wary of antagonizing the white 98% of the electorate. Labor violently opposed the Tories' 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, but reversed itself and last winter decided to extend the law. The Tories were only too glad to oppose last week's bill on the ground that "the British people can be led, but they cannot be driven." And, when Conservative Peter Thorneycroft proposed that instead...
...peers' gallery was packed. So were the press gallery, the visitors' gallery, diplomatic and Commonwealth galleries. The floor of the House of Commons was S.R.O.-as it must be, whenever the 630 Members of Parliament want to assemble, since the House still contains only enough seats to comfortably accommodate its 16th century membership of about 450. Everyone had gathered for the debate on Harold Wilson's White Paper proposing a $1.5 billion nationalization of the steel industry (TIME...