Word: capetown
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...Beating up Erasmus in Capetown a month...
...grandson of a slave, has spent more than half his life on college and university campuses. A graduate of the University of California in 1927 (where he was a crack basketballer), he took his Ph.D. at Harvard. Later, he studied anthropology at Northwestern, The London School of Economics, and Capetown University, finally became professor of government at Howard University in Washington...
...Germans in World War I, and who favored a moderate racial policy, lay gravely ill last week at his farm near Pretoria. Rabid Nationalists kept him awake with taunting phone calls as the election returns from South-West Africa came in. In the streets of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown, citizens who realized that the Germans now had the balance of power in their Parliament asked each other, "How's your German...
...week's end, Smuts was to start a 5,000-mile tour of South Africa for other celebrations-notably to receive the keys of a cottage built for him on the slopes of Table Mountain by the people of Capetown. Then illness interfered: he was bedded with a recurrence of the sciatica he first developed while mountain-climbing several months...
Some of the churchmen put their protests into action. In Capetown, Roman Catholic Father Thomas L. Gill went ahead" and married a white man and a "slightly colored" woman, was convicted and fined $56. An Anglican priest in Natal resigned his appointment as a marriage officer and surrendered his license to the government as a protest against the act. Last week ministers in South Africa were considering a call from Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston of Johannesburg to follow suit...