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(2 of 11) before "the winds of change." No black African nation recognizes the Verwoerd regime, and their diplomatic barriers have forced South African Airways to detour 1,000 miles around the western hump of the continent on its European flights. An international seminar on apartheid opens this week in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

Verwoerd often boasts that the blacks of South Africa are better off than anywhere else on the continent. Economically he is right. What with decent paychecks (minimum daily wage for an unskilled laborer is $2.80) and easy credit, many an urban African can afford to buy imbuia wood furniture for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

Sir: I agree with all you say except that I think you're wrong about European attitudes. The cult of the young is inanely proliferate all over the Continent and Britain. There are TV programs in which the main idea is to focus the camera on young faces; people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1966 | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Not long ago, Peru seemed near the edge of economic disaster: plunging world prices had pulled the bottom out of the country's cotton and sugar markets, and a huge budget deficit threatened runaway inflation. Today things are different; in a remarkable reversal of form, Peru is prospering at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Reversal of Form | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

This continent theory may destroy the idea that the place to look for life on Mars is in the dark regions. Because water boils at a lower temperature at lower pressures, there is little chance that water could ever exist in the liquid form in the low-pressure dark areas...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Scientists Say Mars Has Continents And Ocean Beds Resembling Earth | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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