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...flair for making the party's traditional championship of free enterprise and individual liberties seem timely to young citizens of Britain's welfare state. Grimond (pronounced Grimm-ond) is a tireless organizer who shuttles up to 80,000 miles a year between London, Liberal outposts and his far-flung constituency of Orkney and Shetland, a storm-battered 20-island chain in the North Atlantic, where he campaigns by motor launch and shanks' mare...
...Paul Scott. India was not so much a political territory abandoned in 1947 as a continuing province of the heart-where seasons of love and hate are often slow to change. Exploring the life of one Englishman so smitten, Scott has turned out a strange novel, the kind of far-flung romantic British tale that might have been accused of Maughamism if its hero did not suffer so monumentally from an Oedipus complex. The lady in question is not his parent, who died when he was four, but Mother India...
...books, Paul Mandel's Main-side, a skilled first novel set at a Florida naval air station, and Stanley Ellin's The Panama Portrait, which takes place on an island off South America, illustrate just how far-flung fictional organization men are becoming...
...neighboring Indonesians. And because of this strong economy, Malaya may well be able to expand. Last week Britain agreed to link the four remaining parcels of the British Empire in Southeast Asia−Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei, North Borneo−with Malaya to create the far-flung Federation of Malaysia by next summer. The federation stands a good chance of success because of Malaya's success with rubber...
This scene was repeated at airports and docks from the West Indies to Hong Kong last week as immigrants rushed to get into Britain before July 1, when the new Commonwealth Immigrants Act comes into force. In the past, any citizen of the far-flung Commonwealth could exercise his right of free entry into Britain. As of July 1, he can enter only as a stu dent or visitor, or if he holds in advance a paper from Britain's Ministry of Labor confirming that a definite job awaits him. In the scramble to reach Britain, Indians...