Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addressing his all-white Parliament in Cape Town in its chamber paneled in stinkwood, Verwoerd described his London trip as a "triumph." and blandly suggested that Macmillan's "strong words" against apartheid had been merely a gesture that Macmillan had been obliged to make in deference to Britain's "quite wrong" policies in its African colonies. What seemed to rankle most was Macmillan's line about the South African flag. Actually, cried Verwoerd. the flag would only be at half-mast if "we had chosen self-destruction and mass suicide." As it was, with South Africa established...
...making a different step-by-step study of space. Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched from Cape Canaveral a 78-lb. satellite programed to go into an elongated orbit ranging from 120,000 miles at its apogee (highest point) to 94 miles at its perigee. On board were three magnetometers, including an extremely sensitive one to measure magnetic fields, and a special instrument to study protons shot out of the sun. This sort of information is vital for space flight to other parts of the solar system. The crews of low-orbit manned satellites will be protected...
...their last link with Britain was severed. Diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer called the news "appalling." Said Johannesburg's Englishlanguage Star: "A time of deep sadness for all South Africans except the Afrikaner extremist whose hostility to all things English was not appeased by the break with monarchy." The Cape Times said: "Now we are a lonely little republic at the foot of turbulent Africa...
...over the party's top job. Now he could plunge ahead with the main goal: "I see before my mind's eye," he declared resoundingly, "a great monolithic party . . . united and strong, spreading its protective wings over the whole of Africa from Algiers in the north to Cape Town in the south, from Cape Guardafui in the east to Dakar in the west...
...with the cubists. The affair was "rather a platonic one," says he, for he was already preoccupied with ideas of his own. Over the next 45 years, teaching many thousands of students in Germany, at the University of California in Berkeley, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and in Cape Cod's Provincetown, he worked them...