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...after a few day's stay, both women are exasperated with the dull, sheltered existence of the British colony. Then neighbors seem uniformly stuffy and priggish, smug and superior toward "the darker peoples" and lacking any interest in India's exotic culture. The British Club offers polo in the afternoon and musical comedies in the evening. Tea and cucumber sandwiches are served while a sweating Indian band in garish Western uniforms plays "God Save the King...
...placed at the mercies of the prejudiced British court system. The respectable doctor is roughly hauled off to prison while the prosecutors confiscate and search his personal belongings. The district attorney, an acerbic Scotsman, begins his case with the truculent assertion: "It is a universal truth that the darker races are attracted to the fairer, but not vice-versa." Aziz's admiration for the British turns to fear, and finally to outrage...
...venture while married to Newspaper Heir Peter Pulitzer, who made headlines in 1982 during a sensational divorce from his third wife, Roxanne. Lilly and Peter were divorced in 1969. Pulitzer tried to keep her fashions up to date over the past few years by switching to more formal, darker colors. But the designer was never able to find the magic that would capture the attention of today's smart...
...there is another, darker side to current Anglo-Soviet relations that some Britons see as crude interference in British affairs. Recently, an official of the National Union of Mineworkers announced that the Soviets have donated $1.3 million in cash, food and clothing to help the N.U.M. members continue their bloody nine-month-old strike. This follows a summer when more than 100 mineworkers and their families were provided with free vacations at a resort on the Black Sea. A week ago it was revealed that Arthur Scargill, the militantly Marxist leader of the miners, had made several secret visits...
...greatest change at WHRB has been the increase in rock programming. In the early '70s, popular rock music was aired more and more frequently. In the mid-'70s, the rock show "Plastic Passions" began and became one of the station's major shows. Within a few years, "The Darker Side" and other shows devoted to music ranging from reggae to soul to jazz took...