Word: bulawayo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lobengula was a curious combination of statesman and savage. To demonstrate his ability to keep up to date, he had built a Victorian brick house among the wattle huts of his royal compound at Bulawayo. The brick pile was only ceremonial; he lived in a covered wagon given him by a passing trader and used its driver's seat as his throne. He loved to show bug-eyed visitors the royal treasury: two rusty biscuit tins filled with diamonds. A crafty giant of a man who stood 6 ft. 6 in. and weighed 300 Ibs., the Matabele king...
...govern themselves. He points proudly to the fact that their living standard is higher in Rhodesia than in any of the black nations to the north. He boasts that 85% of all school-age children are actually in school and that there are modern hospitals for the blacks in Bulawayo and Salisbury. Blacks and whites get along just fine, he says; Rhodesia is a sort of "racial partnership." And what does that mean? "When my cook and I put on a dinner and it's a failure, both of us are at fault," explains Boss Lilford's wife...
Look, No Horns. As for Ellender, he complained that he had been misquoted -but a transcript of his remarks snowed that he had sure enough said all those unkind things. His denial made some Africans even madder. In Southern Rhodesia the Bulawayo Chronicle, which first defended Ellender's right of free speech, now called him a "polecat" who lacks the "courage of his convictions...
...heavyweight championship of Rhodesia, lost it two years later (a low blow, claims Royboy) and quit the ring for good. After a two-year courtship in which he scared off all her other suitors with his fists, he finally married Elizabeth Henderson, a waitress in a Bulawayo cafe; today Liz Welensky bans politics from her home in Salisbury, banishes Sir Roy to the rose garden if he wants to talk shop with his political cronies...
White supremacists last week announced intent to appeal to the Federal Supreme Court, but the jolt of the lower court's ruling was scarcely softened. The Bulawayo Chronicle recalled bygone days when blacks in the territory were not even permitted to use the sidewalks and commented, "How far we've come in Southern Rhodesia." In fact, some progress, though halting, has been made. Among the more notable milestones...