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...week. Only the day before the emergency was declared, Nyasaland's Governor, Sir Robert Armitage, had flatly stated that no such drastic action would be needed. Now Sir Robert had suddenly taken a stand that seemed contrary to everything that this elegant, liberal, and somewhat indecisive civil servant had ever stood for. He had helped speed
Singing Environment. Actually, his story needs no fanciful embellishments. Harold George Belafonte Jr. was born 32 years ago in Harlem, son of a seaman in the British merchant marine; his mother was alternately a dressmaker, a baby sitter, a domestic servant. Both parents came from Jamaica, West Indies, and both were products of white and Negro unions. Harry's father disappeared when he was two (he reappeared sporadically after that), and Harry was brought up by his mother in a succession of Harlem tenements. At his first school (P.S. 186, on 145th Street and Amsterdam Avenue...
...first became interested in the problems of the civil service career system--a question he was still exploring in a Gov 130 lecture this month. His thesis for the B. Litt. degree was a comparison of the constitutional, administrative, and sociological roles of the British administrative class of civil servant with that of its American counterpart...
...Formidable Quartet. Though he comes from a long line of reformers (his father was a top British civil servant in India), Butler fell in with the family tradition quite unintentionally. His rise to power in the Conservative Party was dogged by the memory of 1939, when, at the age of 36, it was his duty to defend the Munich disaster in the House of Commons (the Foreign Secretary, Halifax, was in the House of Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked...
...given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant girl emerges as the daughter of Adam Trueman. a bewhiskered. cane-thumping farmer of great wealth and rectitude...