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...first evidence of these virulent new bugs was detected in May at the King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, a port on the Indian Ocean, where five children ranging in age from three months to two years came down with unusually persistent cases of pneumonia. Three eventually died of meningitis. The two who recovered did so only after long treatment...
...November, still quietly, the church admitted about 50 more non-white students. "At this stage, publicity is our worst enemy," said Archbishop Dennis Healey of Durban. And so it proved. When Catholic schools reopened after the Christmas holidays and reporters discovered that at least six had integrated, South Africa's provincial governments acted. Ignoring the national government's recent pledge to reduce racial discrimination, officials in Transvaal and Cape provinces threatened to close the offending schools and prosecute parents who did not transfer their children to segregated state schools...
...remarkable match, and the shelves, or underwater plateaus, extending from each of the continents into the Atlantic form a near perfect fit, like adjacent pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. One piece of the puzzle, however, seemed to be missing. There was a deep indentation in the Mozambique plateau off Durban, South Africa, but no proof of a corresponding continental projection from South America. Last month it was announced that the missing land mass had been found; it is a fingerlike extension of the Falkland plateau, extending eastward from the Falkland Islands to a point 1,600 miles from Argentina...
...following article was written by Fran R. Schumer with dispatches from Martha Shirk, an American journalist in Durban, South Africa...
...American journalist currently employed as a news reporter for the Durban Daily News, a newspaper near Johannesberg, relayed the following information in a May 1 letter to The Crimson...