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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dingaan's treachery was soon punished. Later that year, on Dec. 16, 1838, on the banks of Natal's Blood River, another Voortrekker column, headed by Boer Leader Andries Pretorius, bloodily defeated Dingaan's plume-decked, assagai-hurling horde. Of 12,000 Zulus, more than 3,000 perished. The Boers resolved ever after to celebrate Dec. 16 as a day of thanksgiving...
...congress systematically weakened by the liquidation of opposition deputies. Over 20 anti-Perón periodicals have been closed up in the past five weeks; charges of libel and account-juggling have been brought against the leading independent dailies La Nación and La Prensa (TIME, Dec...
...week starting Friday, Dec. 23. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME Dec...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue (TIME, Dec...