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With increasingly totalitarian methods, the white leaders of South Africa are building a southern redoubt for a last-ditch stand against black nationalism on their bottom tip of the continent. Last week the government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd proposed new legislation that will snuff out basic freedoms of all South Africans, black and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Road to Tyranny | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...Austria is like the pretty girl hitchhiking," went the Washington homily. "A car crowded with men slows down to pick her up, but speeds up when her two boy friends come out of their hiding place in the ditch to try to get a ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Hitchhiker | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...Laotian delegation was determined to go on looking for dollars,to finance its last-ditch stand against the U.S. line, planned to stop at South Viet Nam, Formosa, South Korea. Since these countries are heavily supported by the U.S.. it would merely be a roundabout way of getting U.S. funds, and the chances looked slim. For better or worse, the U.S. is still determined to force the anti-Communists of Laos into neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Shaky U.S. Policy | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...rape made by one of his students. Later the same day her boy friend comes after him with a gun. That evening something enormous that grunts like a hog and walks with a limp attempts to break down his front door. Next day his car skids into a ditch. That night his wife falls into a trance and walks into the sea. After he rescues her, she tries to murder him, and less than an hour later his house catches fire while he is being attacked by a-well, it's either a small airplane or an awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Toads in the Tea | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...bottom of the ninth inning, Springfield loaded the bases in a last-ditch rally. But Yarbro, after giving two passes, got back his control and struck out the side. The Box HARVARD (13) ab r h Drummey 3b 2 2 0 Bartolet 2b 6 2 3 Morse as 6 2 2 Bernstein 1b 3 1 3 Gilmor cf 5 3 1 Combs lf 4 1 1 Diehl c 5 0 2 St. George rf 5 1 3 Yarbro p 4 1 2 Total 41 13 17 SPRINGFIELD (3) ab r h Halgas 2b 5 0 1 Stam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity's Seventeen-Hit Barrage Stops Springfield 13-0 | 4/18/1962 | See Source »

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