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Outside Cape Town, where a cordon of helmeted soldiers and sailors surrounded 100,000 beleaguered Africans in Nyanga and Langa townships, police launched lightning raids from dawn to dusk. The cops broke into the squalid homes at random, flailing the hapless inhabitants with whips and shouting "Go to work." In one foray, more than 1,500 were herded away to police stations for questioning...
...picture that looks like new. They can also turn Rembrandt's Night Watch into a Day Watch, expose an extra pair of ears on the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, or transform Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow from a haunting evocation of winter dusk into a Grandma Moses-type picture of sparkling noontime cheer. The restorer's results are unquestionably dramatic, but is the drama comedy or tragedy...
...division, he lunched with company officials. When the 3:30 afternoon whistle blew at the giant International Harvester plant, Humphrey was waiting at the gate to greet the workers and shake scores of hands as the men headed for home. Hurrying back across town in the dusk, he stopped off at a press conference to explain his candidacy ("The Democrats need someone to meet Nixon head on"), then paused in his hotel room long enough to mull over the script of the address he was to make on television that night. Later, he slipped upstairs to join...
...dusk, despite the ultra leaders' exhortations, much of the crowd turned home. But the most aggressive of the settlers-well-armed members of the Home Guard formed to fight off surprise rebel attacks-continued to lounge along the curbs under the watchful eyes of 1,000 men of the Gendarmerie Mobile. In the gathering darkness, reported TIME Correspondent Frank White, who witnessed the event, the gendarmes charged the crowd, first firing a volley into the air and then throwing tear gas grenades as they...
...dusk fell over northern Europe, the icy winds died down and weather forecasters predicted warmer air from the south would bring relief to Scotland Thursday. In the southeast, Austria braced for a cold wave after two sunny days...