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...Premier Malan's Nationalist dominated Parliament passed an act which would similarly reduce the right of one million coloreds from equal suffrage in Cape province, where they are bunched, to apearate voting for a small number of representative. There was no two thirds majority. An immediate howl of protest was bolstered by a supreme Court ruling that the act was unconstitutional...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Race-Conscious Union of S. Africa Faces Important Spring Elections | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

...Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a howl with their own particular brand of doleful dramatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Himalayas, north of India and south of Tibet, lies the most remote kingdom in the world. The upland valleys of tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan are as green and inviting as those of Shangri-La, and the passes that lead into them just as forbidding. Icy winds howl along the snowswept plains behind the mountain passes to discourage the traveler. Rugged barriers of snow and ice rise as high as 24,000 ft. Dense semitropical growth clogs the lower valleys. Fever haunts the forests, making them uninhabitable to all except endlessly prowling tigers and rhinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BHUTAN: Two's a Coronation Crowd | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Gotta Have My Baby Back (Rusty Draper; Mercury). A torchy howl in the Frankie Laine tradition, backed by a big, swinging band and a few real jazz licks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 6, 1952 | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Burray made a bad tactical mistake in failing to go through with his original plan. At the last minute he refused to allow the Penn-Netro Dame game to be locally televised, and the Princeton-Columbia game went on as originally scheduled. The Philadelphia locals let out a loud howl, while Murray cooled his heels...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

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