Word: capes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took the week off to golf in Hawaii. Unlike so many rich guys who have used their new fortunes to remake themselves with Fifth Avenue apartments, houses in the Hamptons and charity balls, he lives the kind of small-town life he would have lived had he stayed in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, only with more possibilities for ordering in ethnic food. After dinner, he is dropped off at a nondescript high-rise on the Upper West Side, with two bedrooms and no dining-room table. Having gone on numerous diets, he is now satisfied, he says, to "maintain" his current...
Nine hundred miles away in the Western Cape, white farmer Henry Hall, who was uprooted by a quirk of the same apartheid regime, is helping his black workers become shareholders in his thriving $10 million fruit-exporting business. The 170 laborers on his farm, some descended from slaves of the original Dutch settlers, have for the first time in their lives a financial asset to pass on to their children...
Although Hall was ousted from his farm in Ciskei 13 years ago, when the so- called black homeland became "independent," he is now solidly re- established on rich terrain 60 miles from Cape Town. He looks back on apartheid as "a dreadful fiasco" for everyone concerned. "We're doing well again," he says. "I reckoned it was time I started giving something back." He is one of an increasing number of whites who are trying to help penniless black workers become property owners...
Hall is one of the early innovators. In the years since he was expelled from Ciskei, he has built his new farm, Whitehall, into one of the leading export operations in the Western Cape's fruit belt. This year he put a third of his holdings into a trust for his 170 permanent employees...
Tropical storm Gordon, which killed at least 531 people in Haiti and four people in Florida, whipped itself into a hurricane today before heading up the Atlantic coast and out to sea today. This afternoon, the hurricane's 75-mph winds swirled 325 miles off Cape Hatteras and forecasters expected no immediate threat to U.S. shores. (It could, however, shift back toward land anywhere up to New England, they said.) Meanwhile, says TIME Miami Bureau Chief Cathy Booth, Gordon's lesser incarnation swamped 35,000 acres of cropland in Florida's Dade County -- destroying about half the U.S. winter vegetable...