Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states were pushing up like exotic flowers from the jungles and savannas, from the cloud-rimmed mountains and sandy wastes of the last continent to awaken politically. Despite the daily shedding of blood from the Mediterranean littoral to the Cape of Good Hope, independence has come quietly and with peace to most of Africa's 240 million. If Algeria is at last on the way to peace, only the Congo currently remains as a running sore...
Last week Bishop Reeves asked to be released from the congregation he can no longer serve. Cape Town's Archbishop Joost de Blank, who is as bitter a critic of apartheid as Reeves himself, accepted his resignation. "A sorry day indeed has dawned for a people that claims to be devout and God-fearing," said Archbishop de Blank. "Many will see it as a victory of anti-Christian forces in this country when a man is outlawed for obedience to the Christian Gospel as he sees...
Along Route 45 near rural Ramapo, N.Y., bounces a big green soda truck with a driver to make heads turn-big, bespectacled and full-bearded, beneath a round, wide-brimmed black hat. When he turns off the highway into a community of modern Cape Cod cottages, the friend who greets him on the roadside or waves from a window might be his double-big beard, black hat, black coat and all. This is how men look in New Square...
...Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand (the only place in the city where an opera-sized production could be staged before a mixed audience). King Kong was an instant hit, and played before 120,000 persons-two-thirds of them white-in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. Then, as now in London, heavyweight Jazz Singer Nathan M'dledle (pronounced Muh-dead-ly) played "the King." His girl was played by Miriam Makeba, whose success in the role catapulted her to solo spots in U.S. nightclubs; she has been replaced in the opera by 29-year...
King Kong bigger than Cape Town...