Word: caped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boer War barnstorming seemed to be paying off for the Nationalist leaders. At last week's special election in Oudtshoorn, an Afrikaner stronghold 278 miles east of Cape Town, the National Party candidate defeated both his United Party opponent and a right-wing Afrikaner splinter candidate by an unusually wide margin. "An inspiring test of strength," beamed Prime Minister Vorster. Opposition leaders, though, insisted that Oudtshoorn-which is best known in South Africa for the ostriches it raises-was hardly an index of the national mood. "The Afrikaners here will get a shock," said one United Party politician, "when...
Three hundred forty-six members of the Professional Management Development (PMD) program at the Business School flew to Cape Kennedy yesterday to view the Apollo 16 launching as part of their training in decision-making...
Some of the questions may be resolved by the flight of Apollo 16, scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy on Sunday, April 16. The spacecraft will carry Mattingly and his two crewmates, John Young and Charles Duke, on the fifth-and next to last-scheduled U.S. expedition to the moon. It may also be the most exciting. While Mattingly performs experiments in lunar orbit Aboard the command ship Casper.* Young and Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make...
...that relationship has been largely reversed or obscured. Even so, a number of contemporary artists still take an intimate view of the land. Paul Resika discovers "the light of sentiment" in the long summer twilight of Cape Cod. Jane Wilson is fascinated by the "weight of the sky" in Iowa. Other painters look ever more closely around them. Alan Gussow discerns a universe in Atlantic tidal pools; in a bunch of wild flowers, Ann Poor sees Maine's rocky land, autumn, perfection...
...spring is here again. The war is still here, as to as been for many springs now. The next months certainly will hold occasions for wiffle ball trips to Fenway, and drives to the Cape. The will also host bombs, death, and destruction around the world. Whether or not they produce strikes, marches, or exams is another story. If there were a strike this yea, the class of 1972 will this year's sleeping collegiate giant...