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...British Travel Association had planned it, last week's rally was to be a leisurely tour. Ten oldtimers from each country-five paleolithic cars (1904 to 1914) and five neolithic cars (1920 to 1930)-would take the Great North Road south through Alnwick and Newcastle, Durham and Dar lington. Along the way they would stop for special competition (i.e., parking, hill climbs, obstacle runs), they would be docked for passing check points early or late, and there would be a Concours d'Elegance (beauty contest...
Reserves: Jake, Bare, Eel, Ice, Sweat, Nip, Sacks, Bratley, DAR, Royce, Rolls, Corny, Gwitrtzberg, Reaves...
...Dar es Salaam, capital of the neighboring British protectorate of Tanganyika. 19-year-old Brian Hay ward and a handful of African 'troopers under his command were found guilty of 1) .tying up Mau Mau suspects with thongs round their necks, 2) whipping the soles of their feet, 3) burning their eardrums with lighted cigarettes. Hay ward was fined ?100 ($280) and jailed for three months, but the English judge did not think that the soldiers should be judged too severely. "It is easy to work oneself up into a state of pious horror over these offenses," said...
...Inauguration of a president, but even that event is too partisan and frequent to evoke the same fever. Rather the coronation resembles what would happen if Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were to come alive, and at an appointed hour drive down Fifth Avenue before the massed memberships of the DAR, SAR and American Legion. But America, lacking a living human being to sum up its history, can only grope at understanding what the Coronation means to the Commonwealth...
...again, the United Nations received the full blast of DAR rhetoric. The leader of the Glens Falls chapter took the floor. Starting meekly, she pronounced her scorn for would government, then worked up to, "Let us turn the strength massed within this great, influential and highly esteemed organization to a constructive force for the United Nations." The retort was brief but effective. The only thing we have to fear is such a statement as has just been made...