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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY112, 1980, (
Texans vote to
to build British newsletter from Peter Burgoyne
the biggest city in the world
EVERYTHING is big-
ger and better "in Texas. That is what every citizen in the Lone Star State believes. And the other day the town of Houston did a typical Texan thing; it voted to
IS AMERIC
New York, Monday
make itself the biggest Angeles, and San Francisco put city on earth.
Parking their bly cars, re- moving their big hats, the town councillors put their heads together and said: "We will annex, 1,100 square miles of surrounding country and call it Houston.
Pin
together.
Boom town it may be, but Houston's population is still only 932,680, making it the sixth biggest city in the U.S.
But you know Texans. They were hurt when Alagica's mission last year made Texas only the second biggest State.
Chambers.
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This is a boom town. Hous-
ment."
Now Houston will be more Welcomed. Terms can be arranged than twice the size of Greater
London, with less than one eighth of London's population.
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Ist night--8th July-
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2nd night-6th July-
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A black week for Britain's Labour Party
London (By Airmail). •
Not since the General Election debacle of last autumn has Britain's Labour Party faced so black a week.
· Britain is as lively an ever it was
Until Mis
Nancy Mitford.
the
-Walle the final foregone results of that election were still coming in, I wrote in this column that if the Labour party linols will be named either were to survive as a power in blow the gad by revealing how Ike or Mamfe, ·· Park rangers British
politie 1 policles and might distinguish by their can't get close enough to decide would have to be recast dras spech the "Upper" from the
non-Upper," which yet,
class-con- tically. I said, too, that such a
scious had a fairly reliable course would be angrily slated by the powerful diehards means of putting a man in his of British Socialism in Parila- place.. ment. in the mighty trade unions and in the constituen {cles,
NEGRO and his daughter were waiting for a table at a Manhattan restaurant which is usually crowded at lunch- -time because of the view. "Your reserved table by the window, air?" asked the bead
water. "Of course.”
But he was not saying this to the Nero, who was at the head of the queue,
He kept passing him over for
do Pat Bakull; a 17-year-old white people farther down the California.zir). She objects line, with a big tip every time. meat to the bit which says mili. The head waiter was sacked Lary service will make a man on the spot, for the Negro did of you."
what many coloured people are scared to do he kicked up a Juss
*
INSTANT DOPE is the new
thing acording to detee tives of the Narcotics Bureau. In New York they arrested Jac queline Skuller, 20-year-old ac- tress, who was found with eight capsules of a drug called stro monturn in her possession,
Slang word for the staff is "spumoni," an Italian ice-cream with nuts in it. But dissolved in coffee it produces the same effect as marijuana.
STATE AID for private rall WATE wis approved by
of the
New Jersey Assembly recently. Mare than £2 million, originally in».
uzanímans "ote
I know this happened only because the manager told me therwise, like many other white people in New York, I am quite aware of the dis- criminetion. It is illegal. in this State.
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Last week saw the justification of my words written then. The plans of Socialist leader Hugh Gaitskell to adapt Socialism is the realities of the second half of the twentieth-century were rock cd on their heels,
By telling all Miss Mitford shattered this class barrier and It has been left to a young York- Cambridge graduate, a
hire bricklayer's Ron Hall, to furnish snobs with a guide to "alrightness."
son named
"Halle Law," as he calls his class guide, was born of The observation that the higher up The National Union of Rail the social tree a person is the waymen decided by one vote, more names he is likely to have. Most people would have let as it happened to support the Idea of Britain's abandoning it go at that, but Hall, plainly nuclear weapons regardless of a true academic, began re- what other powers might do searches to substantiate his fire. And the National Union of casual observation, Mineworkers rejected the party loadership's recently enunciated compromise that there is room in Britain for both public and private ownership.
Now these researches have crystallised into Hall's Law which states: "For any sum- ciently large group of people, the average number of initials Sinca the trade unions carry (Incluiting, Christian and sur great block votes to the Labour cames) possessed by members Party conference, simple arith- of that group is a direct mea- metic seems to indicate that on sure of the predominant social But if you are coloured; two major points-defence and class of that group." nationalisation the
The inevitable result of this party leadership's new thinking in disclosure will b A clamour aware of it!
for, bigger birth certificates.
a
then subtly, you become
doomed.
pon-
"Subtle" is the word used in
While Hugh Gaitskell report published recently, dered, this grey, outlook news which says that 16 per cent of came of Aneurin Bevan's death. the restaurants on the smart East Side of Manhattan areal careers Gaitskell and Nye
Although during their poll diferiminating against Negroes, had not always seen eye to eye, Nobody dares refuse coloured the fact was that latterly Nye people adtnission, But "subtly had Indicated that party unity they are made univelcome, it is
was paramount said
troubled times for British
I note an ominous, change in the pattern of. British living. The nation Is eating less fish and chips, My authority for this is no
lended for road construction. reserved." The walter is alow frame of mind would have been mart of the White Fish Au- ·
The good tables are always Socialism. And Nye in that loss than Sir Louis Chick, chair-
taking the order.
will help keep the, tottering suburban rallways running.
He is even slower in deliver- ing the food, so that in the end BABY BUFFALO ›` born the unwelcome client walks out Buffalo Rock State Park, in exasperation,
at
.BY. THE
WAY.
by Beachcomber
TINY salt-separators, coloured Egout-Sur-Mer Telastic blankets,
plastic
greenhouses, and waterproof
Enese
declining of Immeasurable support to thority who blames
fish consumption? partly on deu Hugh Galtstell
creased patronage of the fish and chip shape.
But Beva is gupe and Gall- kell must for the reactionaries
What's more, Sir Louis hints. alone. What is more, he must overcome them. If the British that the villal of the piece may Labour Party is not to be con- be that popular whipping boy demned everlastingly to warder television.
He has said: "Many familles. bitterly and aimlessly in the
today sit at home watching | political wilderness.
television and no longer rip out to the fish shop round the cor- ner for fish and, chips..
I heard this week a most damning indictment' of present - day 'morals and values.
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or unusual weather on man-made nuclear activity.
pocket Hinings may be found in A inquiry into the effects of oil on sewage-contaminated Christmas crackera this year, it beaches, and vice versa, is over-
A growing number of married the campaign to fill crackers due. Meanwhile many people couples are trying to have with "more useful articles" bears have discovered that oil from their legitimate child const
illegitimate, what may not, by any stretch of ships produces a far darker and demed the imagination, be called fruit, healthier- tan than either sun grotesque course would permit · I hope the mottoes will also shine or san-tan mixtures. But the child to be adopted and so be brought into line with con- now that there are pills to pro- reduce the parents burden. temporary thought. What about dure tan, there should be more quotations from trade balance room on the beaches for sewage figures?
men, oil experts, and seagull
In passing
F
a'councillor buys à large car and finds it impossible to get it into his garage, the remedy is simple, His, neighbour in 2 council house must surrender
cleaners.
Very tinimportant people
VISITING beauty queens and models will, in future," be bit of his garden, under threat, met at the airport by a few
Now I learn that the Hitchin, I could hardly have credited
District Cage the existence of such people in Letchworth and
twentieth-century · welfare Bird Scelety think that 100 of
I a
state but for the authority of their canaries may have died
the source from which the in- because nuclear tests have been formation came--the National held the Pacific and the Council for the Unmarried Society's canary seed, là im- Mother and her Child.
ported, from Australia. In almost every burden the parenİN want to.! shrug off is at root Brucial.
the
of course, of eviction by the Cabinet Ministers, the Lord No statistics are available to council. The suggestion that Mayor of London, the Chairman show, how many are deflected the councillor should either move of "Loyd's, the College
of from this course by the efforts
to another house or buy a smal- Heralds, and Mrs Wretch. They of social workers, · But regard- ler car could only be made by, will be accompanied on the drive less of what the figure may be, these ignorant the necessity to London by a guard of molor- the outrageous fact remains for councillors to maintain their cycle police two vans full of that so many people are pres dignity and prestige and to stamp detectives, and a fleet of helicop-pared to cast off their children out the stubborn selfishness of ters. In London they will in- and their responsibilities rather the mere council tenant.
spect a battalion of the Grenadier than make sacrifices, Inverted comas
Guards in Parliament Square, READ that two men were and will then address
Houses Induced by hypnosis Solution
in each of the small squares may be used once only. Each word must con- Plain the large letter in the centre square, and there must be ut least one pine-letter word in the ilst, No plurals to toreizu words; us proper names. TODAY'S TARGET: 27 Words good: 34 words, 'sary pood: 47 words, excellent. COULO FUW.
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London Express Service.
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·Proverbs 20:1.5.
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this egalitarian
• class « consciousness.
Among the quiet fields of Wiltshire's lovely Nadder Valley. I realised Inst week the fantastic rate of change of this world we inhabitant
1:was speaking to an old mat who, as a youngster, had har vested with an oxen team from dawn to dusk for ninepetice a age jet-powered A-bomber wooshed day. And while we spoke a in overhead,,
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