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...colony. Landing at U.S.-leased Kindley Air Force Base, the Duke, technically the airport commander's landlord, graciously thanked him for the courtesy of his runway. That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil's my escort?" Next day, the royal plane set down at Jamaica's tourist-fringed Montego Bay. The Queen was presented by Jamaica's Chief Minister William Alexander Bustamante with a hand-printed address of welcome, containing a wishful hint...
...been a tedious procedure, because very few of them are clever. A typical picture is one of a ragged little dog labeled Trixie, first and fiercest bulldog, supposedly demonstrating the dauntless spirit of the dogged Blue eleven. But the cut lines do the best with meager material, in a mock, curt, newspaper style...
...Spent 18 minutes with Mamie and members of his staff in a new, $750,000 White House air-raid shelter during a mock A-bomb raid. Afterward, Civil Defense officials reckoned that, had the raid been real, the President would have survived, although 120,000 Washingtonians in the neighborhood would have been casualties...
...newspaper had fixed its disapproving glance on a Halloween rag at the University of Toronto in which undergraduates staged a mock lynching and burned U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in effigy. Shrouded in bedsheet hoods, hundreds of students swarmed across the campus chanting, "Burn McCarthy!" and "Down with Joe!" After the dummy guest of honor had been hanged from a scaffold and put to the torch, speakers denounced McCarthy's "terror tactics." An outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News...
...United Nations Council will hold a mock UN General Assembly tonight at 7:15 in New Lecture Hall. Over 50 foreign students will represent their own countries at the meeting...