Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inoffensive Predictions. Because he had just been elected to Parliament, Churchill asked Ohlinger not to publish anything that might jeopardize his career. The young reporter, who later became a successful Ohio attorney, was super-scrupulous. He quoted only a few inoffensive remarks in his story in the Inlander. After Churchill's death, Ohlinger, now 89, decided it would do no harm to publish the remainder of the interview. What if Churchill had suggested that Russia should be permitted to move into China? Considering his youth, the hour, and the amount of whisky he had consumed, the young imperialist said...
...failings of the chorus became particularly evident in the large numbers. Neither "Into Parliament" nor "We Are Dainty Little Fairies" is well articulated or loudly sung. The choreographer who has no separate credit but I assume to be one or both of the co-directors--doesn't handle a crowded stage any too well...
...Danes and Finns are just as tough as the Swedes about even slightly tipsy motor-vehicle operators. Violations cannot be fixed; Member of Parliament, clerk, street sweeper, all live in the same terror of flunking the blood-alcohol test and being clapped into jail. Time and again, when we lived in Denmark, friends with as few as two schnapps or highballs under their belts telephoned the police-who dispatched a courteous cop, free of charge, to drive them home...
...seemed like a certain victory. Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson was in favor of abolishing the death penalty. So were the leaders of all the other major parties. Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker told Parliament: "It is a frightful thing when a man you believe to be innocent walks to the gallows, and later the truth comes...
Only hint that a few South African whites were at all disturbed by apartheid came in the narrow victory of the Progressive Party's perky Mrs. Helen Suzman, who in the past five years has been the only voice of dissent in the South African Parliament. Supported by all major English-language papers and by gold-and-diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer, Mrs. Suzman carried her wealthy Johannesburg district by a bare 711 votes...