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...some kind of restrictions on nonwhite immigration to Britain, Butler was in tune with an increasingly vocal segment of British opinion. The Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced that it had surveyed Britons...
...assortment of subjects. In for a joshing came Heavyweights Floyd Patterson and Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, Texas. A potbellied, stein-hoisting Brave celebrated Milwaukee's National League lead in German dialect, and days later Mullin's cutlass-swinging Pittsburgh Pirate was walking the plank while a puzzled Brave looked...
What about Labor? No sooner had Knowland declared last fall than he spelled out plank No. 1, a right-to-work law. Other major Republicans, e.g., Goodie Knight, oppose right to work, as do the Democrats. Labor unions have urged their memberships to vote Knowland down. Will he be buoyed or buried by his stand...
That could hardly have worried Harold Stassen less: he was already hard at work hammering tenpenny nails into his political platform. His first plank: "There should be a summit conference-the sooner the better...
...Where a plank bridge spans a small brook that runs into the Black Sea, two Turkish infantrymen stood guard this week. Their posture was rigidly prescribed: each had one foot on the bridge and one foot on Turkish soil, one hand behind his back and one on a rifle topped by a flat-bladed, freshly honed bayonet. Motionless, they stared across the brook into thick underbrush where no human figure was to be seen. They were two of the thousands of 12?-a-month Turkish mehmetciks who keep sleepless vigil over the 367-mile border which is the only frontier...