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...advantage. He offered a coalition with "all those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...
Socialists have occasionally warned that Churchill might try to take advantage of the patriotic euphoria of the coronation to call a "snap general election." But the P. M. himself is said to feel that such exploitation of the coronation would boomerang. Having gone through three general elections in eight years, he is convinced that "the country is sick of elections" and wants a rest from partisan strife. This is why the Churchill government has taken pains to press its denationalization and decontrol programs with calculated gentleness...
That yapping you heard was not from the American church members, but from the same pack of lefties who snap at the heels of any who try to expose their ilk ... Why shouldn't the churches be investigated...
...without the loss of time attendant upon a call to assembly." ¶In television itself, tape recordings of both pictures and sound "will obsolete the use of film . . . and reduce overall costs." ¶In the home, closed-circuit TV will make "the television receiver truly the control center . . . The snap of a switch will turn the receiver from the broadcast program to view the children asleep in the nursery or at play in the yard, or the cooking on the kitchen range. The housewife will not only hear but see the caller at the door before she opens...
News editors will cover big University stories and varsity sports: pipe smoking editorial writers watch the Administration's spending, both here and in Washington; the photo board snap the shutter on almost anything: white neatly attired business board members cover Cambridge for ads, and cast mats...