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...lawyer and a comparatively moderate Southerner. Virginia's Attorney General J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr. recognizes that the Old Dominion's posture of "massive resistance" to integration has a limited legal future. But as an astute politician hopefully headed for the governor's chair, Lindsay Almond, 59, recognizes something else as well. Massive resistance is the brain child of apple-growing, economy-minded U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd, and no Virginian has won statewide office in a quarter-century without Harry Byrd's blessing...
...chimes. "I can think of no prouder opportunity to which a newly elected Prime Minister of Canada could be summoned," said he. The British seemed exhilarated by the prospect of a fresh Canadian voice in the Commonwealth family. To Diefenbaker as Prime Minister of the senior Dominion, and to Ghana's beaming Nkrumah, representing the newest member of the family, went the public's warmest cheers...
...Governor General Vincent Massey's book-lined study, a sternly handsome man with pale blue eyes took a solemn oath: "I swear to serve Her Majesty truly and faithfully in the place of her council in this Her Majesty's Dominion of Canada." Then John George Diefenbaker, 61, bent to kiss a Bible, intoned, "So help me, God." Thus, in a quiet ceremony, Canada's 13th Prime Minister since Confederation (1867) took office last week...
...discerning friend once wrote him: "You have translated Master Rudyard Kipling into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some...
Hospitality was the word for Old Virginia, and in honor of this year's celebration of the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, the Old Dominion decided to put out the welcome mat for Old Virginians living outside the state. Down the lists of distinguished ex-Virginians went the official hosts; out to some 600 notables went engraved invitations to a reception May 17, arranged by the State Chamber of Commerce...