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Sunburned and smiling. Queen Elizabeth arrived at the port of Darwin in Australia's remote Northern Territory, clearly enjoyed an easygoing interlude in her Commonwealth tour Down Under. At a luncheon aboard the royal yacht Britannia, Elizabeth and Philip entertained 20 guests, among them a full-blooded aboriginal from the local Rights Council, who departed happily with his souvenir menu but wanted to know just one thing: "What was that stuff that looked like water but didn't taste like it?'' That stuff, someone explained, was a martini...
With the disappearance of the British Commonwealth and the ever increasing cultural, political and economic influence of the United States, Canada has today lost her identity and independence, Conway continued. Her wartime role as "honest broker between the United States and Great Britain" has also vanished...
...Conservative Party, which formerly based its appeal on close ties with the British Commonwealth and a high protective tariff against the United States, must now redefine its position, according to Conway. So too the Liberal Party, which prided itself on its "understanding of the Canadian role in North America...
Throughout most of Europe, getting investment capital is a major business problem. Britain, the most highly developed capital market in Europe, effectively limits most of its loans to the Commonwealth and the sterling area. France imposes such heavy restrictions on capital that only 15% of the investment of its own businessmen comes from the capital market. The Dutch and the Swiss both clamp ceilings on what they will lend. Most German interest rates are so high-and bankers demand so much control over companies that they lend to-that earlier this year the prosperous Neckermann mail-order house sought almost...
...phone an aide and ask, "Can't we do something about this?" Indeed they could. Within hours after the Governor's query, a special assistant attorney general went into Allegheny County Orphans Court, which handles the probate and interpretation of wills, and served notice that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania wanted to be heard before the dogs died. But even before that, Orphans Court Judge William Rahauser had made up his mind: Brickland and Sunny Burch would not die until Ida Capers' estate is audited. And that, dog lovers learned happily, will take anywhere from...