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Tony and Gisela Bloom, an attractive South African couple making the London-Venice run, compared the v.s.O.E. to the Blue Train, which runs between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown and is considered one of the world's most luxurious. It was Tony Bloom who provided the only honest-to-Bond suspense on one trip: he found $17,000 in a dirty roll of bills next to the piano. The money was claimed, an official reported, by "a Frenchman." Mystery and intrigue are not dead on the Orient Express...
...also plans to go there in January to deliver a technical paper at a University of Capetown Conference. Rosen said he had planned his trips to investigate the extent to which "institutionalized apartheid dominated the South African society...
...coloreds like to associate themselves with the white man. They stress their white side more than their black ancestry. But this is rapidly changing. During the riots in Soweto and those in Capetown, the coloreds marched with the Africans against the Afrikaaner...
...CAPETOWN, S. Africa--A special government commission yesterday recommended the abolition of discriminatory labor laws to allow blacks the same pay, training and union membership as whites...
Charles Engelhard backed up his anti-apartheid words with action. Richard Tofel '79 of The Harvard Independent (November 30, 1978, page 3) reports that Engelhard's intervention was directly responsible for obtaining the visa that enabled Robert Kennedy '48 to deliver his famous 1966 Capetown anti-apartheid speech...