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...miffed that Paul refused to visit New Delhi. The papal trip also cuts no ice with Portugal, which has never forgiven India for seizing its old colony of Goa in 1961. In honor of the Bom bay congress, Goa is exposing for 44 days of veneration its most famous relic, the mummified body of the 16th century Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier-minus one toe that was bitten off by an overzealous worshiper in 1859 and part of one arm, which was shipped to Rome for veneration in 1615. So outraged was the government of Portugal by news...
...Sullivan, Tarzan's favorite lane in the Africa that was) turns the coup into a coo with John Leyton, a stranded British private. Flora Robson adds snap as a visiting lady M.P., but the pick of the lot is Richard Attenborough. As a starched and polished relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when he raises his glass in a brusque farewell toast to the glories of Empire, then hurls drink and all at a portrait of the Queen...
Question #5 would "curb the Governor's Council" by taking away its authority over contracts and leases and most gubernatorial appointments. A relic of days when the Bay Colony hemmed and hawed with the Hanoverians, the Council has consistently thrown up hurdles to administrative harmony and efficiency. Also, its ratifying function invites corruption. Passage of Question #5 is essential to vigorous executive government...
Spreading the Risks. Always cautious, Chartered has taken care not to be left as a ruined relic of empire. Ever since taking office in 1962, the company's president, Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans, 70, a former Conservative M.P., has been busily spreading the risks: of total investments of $186 million, only $32 million is now in Northern Rhodesia. The wide-ranging portfolio includes, in addition to British companies, minority holdings in South African gold mines, Italian rubber manufacturing, Australian and New Zealand aluminum, Canada's Hudson's Bay Co., and several U.S. companies. Nevertheless, Chartered is bracing...
...aimed at the future, the brand new twin-engined plane rolled out on the test runway at Convair's San Diego plant last week looked like a relic of the past. The tiny (34 ft. long) Charger seemed to be a stubby cousin of World War II's P-38 Lightning...