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There was little doubt of the results, though the voting will not end until this week. Except for a few dissenters, most citizens were expected to rubber-stamp the proposals. There was, after all, that sizable herd of Osagyefo-worshippers who received fresh inspiration from the Ghanaian Times writer who recently confessed: "I shudder when I think of the greatness of the Great One. And so let the world know, and the word go forth, that indeed we do have a miracle called Kwame Nkrumah who walks the face of Africa today...
...presented a program called That Was the Week That Was, a sort of U.K. News & World Retort in which a group of bright and biting youths said what they pleased about Parliament, the Crown and current affairs. It was ragged and embarrassingly sophomoric, but it had the stamp of originality, and it became a sizable milestone in British television...
Ringed City. Unlike Calcutta, where long British ownership of the jute mills left a distinctly British tone to the city, Bombay has its own cosmopolitan, fiercely independent stamp. From the beginning, the flourishing textile industry was owned and operated by the Indians themselves. Bombay industrialists were treated by the British as potential customers for machinery rather than as colonial underlings. Textiles spurred the city's growth, but Bombay has confidently gone on to such new industries as oil refineries, fertilizers, synthetic fibers, and assembly plants for Italian autos and motor scooters. The city is ringed by plants making everything...
Long Eclipse. The Count is more loved than admired by his immense audience, and at Basin Street East, his fans were strictly of the ilk that whistle, stamp their feet and shout, "Yeah, Count!" Basie was at his amiable best, beaming proudly at his players from the piano, even playing fun-and-games accompaniments to Singer Keely Smith...
Questionable Washday. "Legal matters take time, and the great lovers will just have to bear up a few more days or maybe weeks," Eddie went on. "They stamp their feet, and if they don't get what they want, the world must stop. They're acting like a couple of kids in a playpen. They've been in their playpen long enough. They can wait a few days...