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Colored Flood. Many Britons are uneasy at this reversal of traditional Commonwealth policy. As a report by the Church of Scotland put it, the law reduces that sense of "belonging with which any man in any Commonwealth land or language could say, 'Civis Britannicus sum.' " Though the act applies to all Commonwealth countries, white and black, everyone acknowledges that it is intended to discriminate against colored immigrants. But there was little protest in Britain last week, even from M.P.s and newspaper editors who had argued against the bill when it was introduced last November in Parliament. The silence...
...with discounters are often blackballed by conventional retailers. To get high-fashion goods, Ferkauf and Schwadron sometimes have to go through cloak-and-dagger maneuvers that the CIA might study with profit. Korvette's Fifth Avenue recently scored something of a coup by offering its customers Pringle of Scotland fur-trimmed cashmere cardigans for as little as $25.90 each, despite the fact that Pringle tries to hold the price to more than twice as much by refusing to sell to discounters. How did Korvette's get the cardigans? Pringle tracked them back through at least two intermediaries: Pringle...
...owns the stately London town house, though she seems to have mislaid Mr. Hardwicke. Jack Lemmon, her tenant, is a U.S. State Department official named Bill Gridley, up from the sand lots of Saudi Arabia to the diplomatic big league of the American embassy in London. The neighbors, and Scotland Yard, have their own ideas about Mr. Hardwicke. "She killed him,"say they...
Elizabeth Taylor will stuff more than $1,300,000 into her cleavage for Cleopatra -one of the highest fees ever paid for a professional woman. Marlon Brando is getting more than $1,000,000 for Mutiny on the Bounty. And Cary Grant, who could probably buy Scotland if he cared to, took 75% of the profits of Operation Petticoat. Profits to date...
Immediate surgery was indicated to replace a detached retina, but Scientist-Author Sir Charles Percy Snow, 56, illuminator of the modern scientific mind in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, first wanted to deliver a speech as 30th Lord Rector of St. Andrews University in Scotland. The operation failed, and he lost the sight in his left eye. "I have no regrets," said Sir Charles in London's Moorfields Eye Hospital. "It was never much good anyway. I still have a good right...