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...rough division of labor, South Africa's 1,100,000 whites of British descent run the country's commerce and industry (including the richest gold and diamond mines on earth), and leave its politics to the dominion's 1,500,000 largely rural Afrikaners. A consequence of this uneasy arrangement is that the most immoderate government in the British Commonwealth is fast driving the country toward race trouble and out of the empire...
Through his Canadian Delhi Petroleum Ltd., Murchison has control of i 1trillion cu. ft. of gas underground in Alberta. In combination with other gas interests, Delhi formed the Trans-Canada Pipelines Ltd. to build a line across the dominion to supply the gas-starved east. Estimated cost of the 2,240-mile line: $350 million...
...bill of abdication would then be presented and passed by both Houses (and presumably, under the Statute of Westminster, by all the Dominion Parliaments too). As now planned, the bill would deprive Margaret of all rights of royal succession, her right to become Regent if Elizabeth and Philip should die before Prince Charles comes of age, her annual ?6,000 income under the Civil List, and her function of Councillor of State, which she exercises whenever the sovereign is incapacitated or absent from the country for a long time...
...leaders in Turin emerged as resistance heroes, began throwing their weight around like a trampling herd of elephants. Year after year they elected an overwhelming majority of the Fiat shop stewards. Management even put in a Communist as personnel manager. U.S. military men were horrified at such Communist-union dominion in plants which, among many other things, assembled Sabre jets. Fiat's boss, Vittorio Valetta, Italy's No. 1 Businessman, worked hard to combat Communism by improving the workers' lot with new houses. CGIL still remained...
...once they had gathered, island leaders tacitly agreed that federation-which amounts to making a British dominion out of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Windward and Leeward Islands-would be meaningless if the bars stayed up. The islands' elder statesman, Barbados' Premier Grantley Herbert Adams, set forth the case for free movement, Trinidadian Labor Minister Albert Gomes offered concessions, and Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley soon brought them into agreement...