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...Chinese-nearly four times as many as was originally estimated -are in fact eligible for citizenship under the conditions laid down by the new law. The Malays were shocked. They had thought that, legally speaking, the Chinese would only get a foot in the door; instead they were smack in the living room, i.e., they will have a major voice in government, escape trade restrictions on foreigners, etc. The British hope that they will also shoulder the duties of citizenship, including service in the Malayan army. But there was no doubt last week that, as one U.S. observer...
...students who have noticed that some of the expressions in Stevens's speeches smack of Schlesinger's lectures in History 169, Schlesinger reassured that he rarely, if ever, chips in a phrase. "The Governor is a better speech writer than any of the men around him," Schlesinger said. "Not since Wilson," he added, "has any candidate written more of his own material...
Tuesday night's accident at the intersection of Plympton Street and Memorial Drive brought the total number of automobile smack-ups in this area to seven within the last two months...
...some, these remarks may smack of religious jingoism, but we feel it is past time for American Catholics to be relieved from the oppressive burden of our Spanish brethren. We have spent weary hours cleaning up the blood the Spaniards overzealously spilt in the Inquisition. If they wish to call the cops on the Protestants four centuries late, they can take the blame themselves...
...Bevan may often have the streets with him, but inside the Labor Party he runs smack into the powerful antipathy of the conservative Trades Union Congress and Cooperative Union. Right now the trades unions are deeply concerned by Communist attempts to exploit workers' unrest over the sacrifices of rearmament. Last week coal miners in Tonypandy, in Nye Bevan's bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake...