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There were other signs, all over Africa, of a fairer share of the blanket. Items: ¶ In blossoming Uganda, where Baganda tribesmen still mourn the loss of their exiled Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14), Governor Sir Andrew Cohen took a plane for London to discuss "social and economic re forms" with British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Said Cohen before takeoff: "There must be no color bar in Uganda; this evil thing will never be permitted in this country...
wrote a long poem bemoaning today's loaves of "processed fluff." TIME'S Gwyneth Kahn answered: "In many ways the good old days aren't what they used to be. One can well mourn: A book of Kinsey underneath the bough, A jug of noncaloric coke, and thou Beside me, slicing loaves of processed fluff -Alas ! This is not Paradise enough...
...ready this year, they mourn. They have collected only $65,000 so far, and foresee concerted effort in order to build by next season. Bright estimates a minimum construction time of four months...
...reasons best known to themselves, take their national game of cricket almost as seriously as war. Yet England, mother of the game, has not won a test series with her chief foe, Australia, since the season of 1932-33. Stiff-upper-lipped about perennial defeats, Britons could only mourn the virtuosity of their cricketers...
Arequipa came to think that Tia Bates was as monumental and enduring as El Misti, but last week she was dead of uremia and old age (almost 85). Indians and whites crowded Quinta Bates to mourn. Said a weeping Quechua: "She was like charapa the land turtle-hard outside, tender inside...