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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen's consuming passion, outside the Crown and her family, is horses. On a recent visit to the university city of Cambridge, she said: "I am so glad to be here. I have passed through so often on my journey to the Newmarket races." The Queen also referees bicycle polo, a game that Prince Philip devised and, popularized for their children. "Do hit it, Anne!" the Queen cries. Elizabeth likes to sit with Philip in the evenings and watch television-at Buckingham Palace, TV is specially piped in to eliminate the static caused by London's rush-hour...
...that binds Commonwealth members has impressive reality. A Canadian will often feel some strange, inarticulate blood link with a New Zealander or a South African or an Indian that he does not feel with an American. One result has been the close association in world affairs between Canada and India. In Washington, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. is able to explain to the State Department some particularly obscure Indian move on the world scene. When he spoke to the Indian Parliament last year, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was heard attentively and respectfully as he allayed...
...eyes were serene, the lips often smiling, but the words were blunt. "The glorious achievements of Chinese rule in Tibet," he said, were aimed at nothing less than "the extinction of the Tibetan race." In 1951 he had signed an agreement with Peking, but only to save his own people and only "at the point of bayonet." Even the official Tibetan seal affixed to the agreement was a forgery, and is still in Communist hands...
...alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source of income for the "Shebeen Queens" who make it. Last week, when the Durban city council started transferring the people of Cato Manor to a new apartheid village farther away from town, the police moved in to smash the stills before the women could take them along...
...England, but the easy chairs, sofas and hassocks in front of television sets are well warmed. What is more, TV producers want more clergymen to man their panel-discussion programs. This chance to talk to a vast new congregation is hampered by one handicap: pulpit-trained preachers and priests often show up as poor performers on the TV screen...