Word: parliament
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Oliverus v. Haraldus. Last week, on the two official voting days, 3,673 out of Oxford's eligible 30,000 M.A.s* turned up in robes to vote. One by one, in the great room where Parliament met in 1665 to escape the plague of London, they marked their ballots for Oliverum Shewell Franks or Mauricium Haraldum Macmillan. Education Minister Sir David Eccles was among those who had to revalidate their degrees to vote, a process that brought Oxford an unexpected windfall of $6,000 in fees. One train brought down Aviation Minister Duncan Sandys from London. Old Laborite Lord...
...Communists added up his performance. He succeeded in showing that Russia was peace-minded, but made little attempt to show that Peking was too. He was not always public-relations smooth. His rude lecturing on the evils of the multi-party state irked India's multi-party Parliament, and his arrogant boasts that Soviet aid is purely altruistic, whereas Western loans always have strings attached, provoked Nehru to comment that nations grant aid to other nations "on the ground of enlightened self-interest." In Indonesia, Khrushchev hurt President Sukarno's pride in his country's culture...
...Russians say that they have none. But in Italy, the question dogs the Communists in every election. In the Neapolitan district of Mergellina, an association of several hundred mothers holds regular meetings and petitions Parliament for word of their sons in Russia. When Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi was in Moscow last month, his wife, Donna Carla Gronchi, demanded an official accounting on behalf of the Italian Red Cross. "I asked for documentation for every one of the missing," she said, "and if any one of them is dead, I want to know how he died, why he died...
Next day in the Senate, Merzagora coldly pointed out that this was the third Italian government in a row that had been destroyed without any consultation with Parliament. If Italy's party bosses continued to make and unmake governments in cozy backroom deals, said Merzagora, "we might as well turn Parliament into a restricted executive committee to save time and money...
...foil a "colonialist plot" that aimed at "Balkanizing" the continent. His neighbors, fearing that Nkrumah had in mind a little colonizing of his own, brushed aside the scheme. Undaunted, Nkrumah has even written his Pan-African hopes into a new constitution that would give him power to dissolve Parliament and veto its acts whenever he felt that an emergency required it. "In the confident expectation of an early surrender of sovereignty to a union of African states and territories," says Nkrumah's draft constitution, published this week, "the people now confer on Parliament the power to provide...