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Uganda, Tanganyika and Sierra Leone are all pressing for time commitments. Back in 1957 a Leopoldville politician kept shouting in my ear over the din of a cafe orchestra: "What we want is justice-the communaute Belgo-Congolaise." Now, only 19 months after the Congo's first municipal elections, the demand is for a wildly impractical schedule calling for territorial elections in December 1959, provincial elections in March 1960, and general elections and a whole parliamentary government by the following June. The dates whiz by in a blur...
...Rocky is only one of a whole galaxy of bright new stars that have set off a cheery din compounded of the click of turnstiles and the clack of sportswriters' typewriters. Others...
Twenty minutes later, Subhadra's cart shuddered on its way. At last, in a din of gongs and cymbals and a blaze of flags came the Lord of the Universe himself. The sound of praying paced the god's slow journey to his garden house, and before his passage people fell back in heaps...
Uive Kitzinger, politics don at Nuffield College, Oxford, provded a friendly foil for a summary of current Labour Party policies by Reg Prentice, a Labour MP. Both agreed that division of sentiment within the parties had caused the rapid quieting of the constitutional din following Suez...
...Congress has even lost much of its old control of the national purse, historically the basic and decisive power of Parliaments. In 1957's Battle of the Budget, Congress huffed and puffed about cutting, but when the din died away, the President's budget was only nicked and scratched...