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...Bronte's novel of a century ago. This time the child was real, and murdered. The body of a ten-year-old girl who disappeared three days after Christmas when leaving her home in Manchester for a holiday excursion, was discovered three weeks ago, naked, in a shallow grave on the Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire...
...huggermugger that still swirls about Saddleworth, a mist-shrouded, hilly corner of country England near where Yorkshire, Cheshire and Lancashire meet. Acting evidently on the advice of tipsters, police began combing the moor three weeks ago. First, they found the girl's body, then, in a second grave, that of a twelve-year-old boy, missing for nearly two years from his home in near by Ashton-under-Lyne. Half a dozen neighborhood children between the ages of 12 and 16 are also listed as missing...
Still, the consequences of Rhodesia's long threatened "Unilateral Declaration of Independence" were so potentially grave that the game of bluff went on. In Salisbury, Smith postponed for a day his Cabinet's decision on U.D.I. At last, he claimed it was finally made, but refused to announce what it was. Instead, he fired off a cable which, with measured stridence, told Wilson it was his last chance to avert "the implementation and consequences" of "our decision," demanded again exactly what he had been demanding before: independence under the present constitution. But there was one thin straw...
...Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, "as long as they pronounce it properly." The jest was of the blunt Anglo-Saxon variety, but it sums up the reverence that every cultivated Frenchman feels toward the language of Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate-or, as one exhortation puts it, "maintain"-la langue fran...
...examiners have been stopped cold in their effort to get Negroes registered. In those states, says the Government, local courts have simply kept Negroes off the voting rolls on the ground that the new federal law is an unconstitutional infringement on state power to regulate-elections. To end this "grave frustration," the Government seeks a swift Supreme Court decision- hopefully before the South's coming spring primaries. Before that happens, the court must accept the case...