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...British Commonwealth law, which prohibits publication of relevant information between the time of arrest and sentencing was discussed by Zeiman Cowen, Dean of the Faculty of Laws at Melbourne University in Australia...
...houses of Stone Town, from the tops of their Moorish-styled roofs to their brass-studded mahogany doors. All of this could only please the black majority on whom Karume bases his popularity. Equally pleasing was his crackdown on those bastions of squash and snobbery, the clubs. Visiting British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys was sipping tea in the English Club at the very moment Karume nationalized it and all other "racial" clubs. Was Sandys affronted? Hardly. Said he: "I do not think anything would surprise me very much in Zanzibar...
Born. To her Majesty Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, 37, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and'Northern Ireland, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, 42, Duke of Edinburgh: their fourth child, third son (third in line to the succession); in Buckingham Palace; an event that sent a 41-gun salute echoing across London, spliced Royal Navy mainbraces the world over, brought forth one of Poet Laureate John Masefield's instant odes, bidding...
Decorating the Commonwealth's Coat of Arms and the tails of Qantas jetliners, the kangaroo has every right to be called Australia's national emblem, though many Australians sometimes wish they had never heard of the beast. Anywhere from 6,000,000 to 16 million kangaroos roam the Australian plains, alternately drinking up the outback water supply and eating the best pasture grass. For these reasons alone, the nation's sheep herders and cattle ranchers not long ago decided the kangaroo had to go, and at last count their vendetta was producing...
...other hand, the Obscene Literature Control Commission may intend no benefit for community morality. To judge from all the facts of the Fanny Hill case and its immediate predecessor, Tropic of Cancer, the commission may be more concerned with the emaciated treasury of the Commonwealth. The voracious demand for both books immediately after the Commission announced its opinions has certainly not gone unnoticed at the nation's publishing houses. If these two threatened suppressions have been a test for a new revenue-raising scheme that might save Massachusetts yet from a higher income tax on the lottery, the test...