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...Geoffrey Cecil Eley, 58, seemed a most unlikely candidate to outrage his peers by nationalizing a private steel company. Yet that, in effect, is what Eley did last week when Richard Thomas & Baldwins, Britain's only remaining nationalized steel company, won its fight to take over privately run Whitehead Iron & Steel. R.T.B.'s chairman for four years, Eley moved into action with government approval when the rival steel firm of Stewarts & Lloyds tried to take over Whitehead-a move that, if successful, would have deprived Eley's firm of its best customer. A quiet, very polite...
Though Welensky's job was not at stake, he put his prestige behind Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead. Both were routed by the far-right Rhodesian Front, which won 54% of the predominantly white vote with a platform scarcely distinguishable from the apartheid practiced across the border in South Africa. Under posters showing the legs of white and black schoolgirls standing side by side, the Front blared: "Rhodesia is not ready for this...
...U.F.P. didn't think so either, but it did promise a gradual end to segregation in residential areas, shops, movies and eating places (though not in schools and hospitals). "We have 200 million neighbors to the north of us shouting 'Africa for the Africans,' " cried Whitehead to raucous catcalls from white farmers. "We must plan a system that will last 25, 50 or 100 years." Stumping energetically for Sir Edgar, Welensky argued that the surest way to preserve white rule was to toss some concessions to the 2,900,000 blacks in the self-governing British colony...
...whites, outnumbered 13 to 1 by Southern Rhodesia's blacks, clearly did not see it that way. The Rhodesian Front is expected to wind up with 35 seats, to 29 for the U.F.P. Chosen to succeed Whitehead as Prime Minister was Front President Winston Field, 58, an English-born tobacco and cattle farmer who looks like Howard Hughes with a suntan...
Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education. New York: Macmillan, 1929 (now in paperback...