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Legislation & Law. The common pattern of parliamentary procedure follows the British model, even to the traditional mace, wigs and dispatch boxes of Westminster. The 51-year-old Commonwealth Parliamentary Association shuttles a constant stream of M.P.s through legislative halls around the world. Though all of its former colonies do not share Britain's respect for justice, the basis of the judiciary system is English common law everywhere except in Ceylon (where the precedent is Roman Dutch law). The most humble Nigerian native can, as a Commonwealth citizen, appeal to the mightiest judges in Britain through the Queen...
...scorn available jobs as laborers or on the docks as "Arab work." Some have turned to crime, are readily identifiable as holdup men because of their throaty accents. So alarmingly has Marseille's crime rate risen, in fact, that the central government in Paris has been forced to dispatch 800 riot troopers to the city to beef up the local police force...
Strikes have also led papers to combine operations, thereby cutting not only costs but jobs. In the midst of a 1959 Guild strike, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat sold its plant to the Post-Dispatch and moved into the Post building. Net job loss to the printing trade and associated unions, as the two papers merged shops: at least 180 hands. Strikes have inspired, or at least expedited, similar management responses in Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Columbus, Ohio...
Blasi soon fixes that. He lets the prisoners escape in the hope that they will inform the British high command as to what poor shape the Italian detachment is in; perhaps, he thinks, the English won't dispatch any troops after such a pitiable quarry. Naturally, the English send Niven right back to the chase. The major demands that Blasi surrender his fort. But pride is Blasi's stand-in for honor, and he demands some elaborate Italian form of face-saving military etiquette. Nonsense, says Niven, holding out for unconditional surrender. While the British major is practicing...
Chestertown, Md.-The Chester-town Chamber of Commerce meets in one of the few air-conditioned rooms in town, a large, nicely furnished place on the second floor of the bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburbana homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid Luxuriousness of life here in Kent Country...