Word: convert
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Nine months ago Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ordered a nation wide referendum (whites only) to convert South Africa into a republic. He, like almost everyone else, expected a majority of South African voters on Oct. 5 to endorse his plans to depose Queen Elizabeth II as titular chief of state. But last week, as Verwoerd's Afrikaner-dominated Na tional Party convened in dusty Bloemfontein under the proposed republican flag (with an R for Republiek in place of the Union Jack), his chances of winning a solid victory in the referendum were looking much less bright...
Along with a new face, the Social Democrats put forward a new policy, designed to convert West German Socialism from a purely working-class party to one with an appeal for middle-class voters as well. Under pressure from Brandt-who would not take the nomination otherwise-the Socialists drastically cleaned out their ideological attic. Tossed into the dustbin with many other souvenirs of Victorian Marxism was the most cherished Socialist goal of all: nationalization. And abandoning their onetime fuzzy flirtation with the notion of neutralism, the Socialists now pledged to keep West Germany firmly in the Western alliance-including...
...vaudeville comedy routine, in which the comedian drew his laughs mainly by bumping repeatedly into her bosom. Between waitress jobs, Irene kept making the Broadway rounds, scored minor successes on TV, was encouraged enough to begin, at 29, the formal study of her profession as a belated Method convert...
...changes in Soviet foreign policy which made possible the conclusion of the state treaty" ending the occupation. Raab's motive: the reparations agreement under which Austria has been paying Russia $25 million a year in a wide range of manufactured goods ends next year. Raab would like to convert the agreement into a straight trade deal, so that the Russians would buy what the Austrians have heretofore been forced to give them free. He also wants to avoid any Khrushchev temper tantrums that would embarrass Austrian neutrality...
Focus of the fighting was no longer Africa. Instead the new goal is to convert Jamaica itself into a Ras Tafarian-run island republic. The leaders include Henry's son Reynold and ten U.S. Negroes from Brooklyn, some of them ex-G.I.s. Police deported some of the boys from Brooklyn when they turned up for Henry's back-to-Africa rallies last October. They got in again three weeks ago under assumed names, went underground in the remote Red Hills region seven miles northwest of Kingston, and began breaking out smuggled weapons...