Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern Rhodesia, most advanced of the three states in the Federation (it has been self-governing since 1923), likes to boast that, as a result of keeping its black majority firmly in a minority place, there has been no serious racial trouble for 50 years. But in the present grim atmosphere of expected violence, M.P.s in Salisbury began acting as if panga-bearing rebels were already chopping away at the great teak doors of the Assembly itself...
...formed in 1953. "The Nyasas," he insisted, "have been deceived by a people whom they had grown to regard as Christian and honest, and betrayed by a government which for 60 years they had relied upon as trustee and protector." Last July he returned home, after 40 years of self-imposed exile, to give battle...
...Pride and Prejudice. If First Impressions resembles any fair lady, it is Jenny, the girl who could not make up her mind. The show wavers between Austen, Burrows and music-hall burlesque, and only the elegant Regency settings and costumes of Peter Larkin and Alvin Colt seem serenely self-assured...
James Garner (6 ft. 3 in., 206 lbs., 44-33-40) is the anti-hero of a counter-Western called Maverick, the "lace-shirted, self-centered, irresponsible" opposite of everything the Good Guy ought to be. He and his brother (Jack Kelly), who takes the lead in the hour-long show every other week, are slow on the draw, cautious, seething with dishonorable intentions toward girls in gingham. They are self-tooting tinhorns who play poker in such a way that it is not a game of chance. "Work," proclaims Maverick, "is a shaky way to make a living...
PENSION PLAN for some 7,500,000 self-employed, e.g., doctors, lawyers, farmers, was approved in a House bill permitting deductions up to 10% of earnings ($2,500 ceiling per year) for specified retirement plans...