Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armed cops gathered outside the Palace of Justice to watch the prisoners being led away. Two Black Marias purred through the square, then accelerated swiftly toward Pretoria Central Jail. From there, the black and "colored" prisoners would be ferried to Robben Island, a former leper colony off the Cape of Good Hope, while the white man would stay in a white prison. As the trucks pulled away, white, black and brown arms flashed briefly behind the bars in the clench-fisted salute of the African National Congress. From the crowd came a ragged cry: "Amandla nga Weto [Strength is ours...
...steely determination, the festival was one more step toward realizing his vision of expanding the horizons of his company "to encompass and incorporate all known dance forms and then add some more." A native of South Africa, Cranko first became hooked on ballet while working as a puppeteer in Cape Town, soon pulled other strings to land a job in 1947 with London's Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet as a dancer and sometime choreographer. Five years later, critics were calling him "the young hope of British choreography." Later, as a choreographer with the Royal Ballet, he carved...
...Sarah Ann Elbery, 31, petite Boston schoolteacher; he for the second time; in Manhattan. They met in 1958 when both worked on Kennedy's senatorial campaign in Boston, and their friendship flowered when she took a job in Washington in 1961 and accompanied Ted on summer trips to Cape...
...Juneau, Alaska, and the other to Penticton, B.C. They will meet again for a rodeo performance in Calgary, Alberta, and will then move on to Edmonton, Alberta; Minneapolis; Toronto; and Chautauque, N.Y. The final appearance of the tour will be July 19 at Otis Air Force Base on Cape...
...below, and its three steerable, battery-powered propellers, two of which can swivel to point up or down, give high maneuverability and a top speed of about 7 m.p.h. Before Alvin tries deep and perilous submergence, it will begin practice runs this month in the pleasant shallows near Cape...