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...Pale and weary, Macmillan reported to Parliament his "deep regret" at the split. But in Britain and abroad, South Africa's exit was the occasion for (as Nehru put it) "relief, not elation." Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman stated the view of the Afro-Asians: "No man, because of his color, should be regarded as an outcast. We of the Commonwealth have proclaimed our stand to the world." The London Times saw the Commonwealth as now on "a secure multiracial basis," and the Guardian stated bluntly: "An unhealthy limb has been removed...
...mention a few offenses that are uniquely Mirsky's. "Lukshin Kugel" is sloppily sentimental, affecting an uncritical nostalgia for the ghetto, and is narrated in a shoulder-shrugging Yiddish tone that is not maintained consistently. In one moment, the narrator sounds like a much-oppressed peasant from the Russian Pale ("Myself, I say, you never know when a pogrom is going to come along. One minute you're in Minsk licking a herring, the next minute you're running for your life."). In the next, he is commenting in the voice of a social historian (The Ladies' Home Journal replaced...
Great Possessions. Pale with anger, the bewigged Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, rose to Macleod's defense, calling Salisbury's speech "the most bitter attack I have ever known on a Minister in my 26 years in Parliament." Next came Lord Hailsham, 53, Tory campaign manager in the last election, who referred scathingly to Salisbury's "great possessions which, here and in Africa, give him the right to speak about affairs." (Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, is named after his grandfather.) Hailsham went on: "My lords, we cannot all have great possessions...
Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
...propaganda." Finney is the offstage opposite of what he calls "the types who spend their time in theater clubs." He considers friends "a bit of a liability." Part quicksilver and part glunch, his boyish, good-looking face has the story of the Industrial Revolution written on it from pale, porridge cheeks to his shock of sandy hair. He seldom spends more than two nights in the same flat, chain-smokes, sometimes has kippers and champagne for breakfast...