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...Cape Town's Victorian Parliament building, Malan's noisy Nationalists shouted for legislation to overrule the court, which had declared one of Malan's Jim Crow laws unconstitutional. The opposition vowed to defend the court, if necessary by force. "You are breakers of the law," cried Opposition Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss. "You will lead the country to revolution and anarchy...
Bert Haines, lightweight crow coach, wasn't sure of the weather last night--"anyone who has lived in New England knows you can't predict the weather"--but he expressed monosyllabic confidence as to the outcome of today's race...
Undertaker Needed. Business was so bad that the plant was about to be shut down; in Perelle's first year, Brill lost $2.1 million. "All the place needed," says Perelle, a cocky bantam (5 ft. 6 in.) who never hesitates to crow over his own accomplishments, "was an undertaker." Perelle quickly found out what was wrong. For one thing, Brill did not even have an assembly line. Buses were built in one spot, had to be lifted over incompleted ones when finished...
Manifest Absurdity. Last year he went too far. In a Jim Crow franchise bill passed by a parliamentary majority of ten, he erased the names of 50,000 Cape Colored (i.e., halfcaste) voters from the white voting lists and assigned their votes to four "white representatives...
With the stringy taste of 1948's crow still in their mouths, the brothers Alsop and many another pundit had determined not to eat it again over last week's New Hampshire primaries. Out-of-state correspondents had swarmed all over New Hampshire in an unprecedented invasion, finding out how the ordinary voters felt-one great omission in 1948. By Election Day, many correspondents felt that they had measured the pulse pretty well, and they began to sidle toward the steam table where the crow was kept warm...