Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to his own system of unwritten laws, Clunies-Ross has devised a social welfare program that includes optional retirement with pension at 60, free health care and housing. Most families have two boats, one for fishing and one for leisure. Education is voluntary, but "school days may end abruptly," notes Clunies-Ross. "Anyone who doesn't respond or is lazy gets sacked." Children go to work at 14, usually as apprentices in a trade. Clunies-Ross said that he did not want the Malay children to have an Australian standard of education because it would lead...
...combat the overpopulation that plagued the island in the past, Clunies-Ross provided free birth control pills starting in 1961, and decreed that families be limited to two children. When couples marry they are given a two-bedroom asbestos house. The Clunies-Rosses themselves do not observe such strictures, however; the ruler and his English-born wife Daphne have five children and live in a two-story mansion, cared for by five house girls dressed in Malay costumes with hibiscus blooms in their long black hair...
...should leave all this alone: that the last thing a peaceful and happy people deserves is the dubious benefits of our civilization. However the situation is not that simple. The islands cannot be left in the past and their future cannot be planned on the assumption that Clunies-Ross rule will always be benevolent...
...responsible under the United Nations charter for the administration of the island, it cannot allow the Malays to continue without the rights of citizenship and the protection of its laws. Last week Minister of External Territories Andrew Peacock visited the Cocos. After two days of negotiations with Clunies-Ross, he achieved an agreement, subject to Canberra's approval, under which Clunies-Ross conceded Australian sovereignty and agreed that the island be ruled by an elected chief executive, presumably himself. Included in the agreement were provisions for Australian teachers, an appeals system for major crimes, and transportation to Singapore...
...Sure we want to get the social theme," says Family Writer Alan Ross, "but the show is a half-hour comedy on commercial TV, and if it's not funny you might as well be on the lecture platform." As George S. Kaufman pointed out, speaking of Broadway, the savage moralizing of satire is what closes at the end of one week; sitcoms must go on week after week. Acknowledging this, Yorkin and Lear are entertainers who brandish the weapons of satire but use them sparingly. Their Bunkers and Sanfords are sheep in wolves' clothing -domesticated in every...