Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roaring chorus, the 173 Afrikaner Nationalists gathered in the shuttered caucus room broke into the old Dutch hymn, Let God's Blessings on Him Fall. Then the paneled teakwood doors swung open, and out into the early spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs...
...Servant Problem. The nation's 10 million nonwhites and many of its 3,000,000 whites were not so sure about all this. "A disaster," said an opposition newspaper, the Cape Times, of Verwoerd's appointment, and in the black slum townships ringing the South African cities, the reaction ranged from explosive resentment to dismay. Yet Hendrik Verwoerd is no simple, Kaffir-bashing white supremacist. Born in The Netherlands, he was brought to South Africa as an infant by his grocer father. A fiery Nationalist from the start, he graduated from the Afrikaans-speaking Stellenbosch University, continued...
...engine failed to cut off, kept the Vanguard going up instead of letting it turn parallel to the earth's surface. When the third stage fired at the wrong angle, the rocket just kept on going-straight up to 2,200 miles. The Navy's reading of Cape Canaveral instruments showed that the satellite landed near the west coast of South Africa, 7,500 miles from Florida-if, that is, the whole thing did not burn up when it re-entered the earth's atmosphere...
...stocky man, thin-lipped and blue-eyed, who orated in harsh, leonine gutturals, Strijdom was the son of a Dutch ostrich farmer in Cape of Good Hope Province. By turns a farmer, lawyer, newspaper publisher and banker, Strijdom was unswervingly a politician. In 1929 he was elected to represent the rural constituency of Waterberg. Soon his fiercely Calvinist insistence on quoting Biblical chapter and verse that he thought supported racial segregation won him the derisive title of "the Messiah of Waterberg." His opponents of the largely English-speaking United Party were all much wittier and smoother than Strijdom, but they...
Died. Johannes Strijdom, 65, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa; in Cape Town (see FOREIGN NEWS...