Word: durban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Durban thought that garlic might help. A Londoner suggested tying a horse under the wing. "Bees," he wrote, "don't like the smell of horses, but wrap him carefully so he won't get stung." A local housewife urged the airline to give the bees a good whiff of bruised lemontree leaves. C.A.A.'s chief pilot decided on more drastic action. Taking his place at the controls, he flew skyward to 17,000 ft., bumped, banked and looped-but when he got down again, the busy bees were still happily humming in the wing...
...natives who came upon a deserted railway tank car near Durban last week recognized the lettering "alcohol" on the car, but the prefix "methyl" meant nothing to them. Agog with the prospect of a gay weekend, they drained off 22 gallons of methyl alcohol still in the bottom of the tank and carried it off in a big black drum to be mixed into home brew. But first they decided to have a quick taste all around...
Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of psychology, will embark in March on a six-month trip to South Africa for study at the University of Natal in Durban...
...Constitution League. In the two months since, the few have grown to 20,000 members in 200 towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When one Cabinet Minister flew from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth to Durban to Johannesburg, Black Sashers were on hand. 50 strong, at each airport to give him a grim, silent greeting...
...customs die hard in a back country. Nowhere in Natal are the traditions of ancient India observed more strictly than on the backwoods Moonsammy banana farm near Sea Cow Lake. In nearby Durban, where many of South Africa's 365,000 Indians rub shoulders with the West, young Indian girls are often permitted to dance and date but Farmer Moonsammy kept his wife and five daughters always in the bondage of purdah, the second-rate status of women in the land of his ancestors. The five girls, ranging in age from 26 to 14, worked hard...