Word: eight
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...late, however, moderates in both major parties have worried that the doctrinaire Verwoerd might be going too far in his economically unfeasible plan to herd Africans into eight little "Bantustans" (TIME, June 1) ringing a paternalistic, all-white South Africa. But right-wingers in the opposition United Party, out of power since 1948, decided to out-apartheid the Nationalists in the next elections. They rammed through the party's convention at Bloemfontein fortnight ago a resolution against the Bantustan program-on the ground that it would reduce the size of white South Africa. Outraged, eleven liberal members of Parliament...
Over the past five years, Washington's International Cooperation Administration has poured $80 million into Guatemala, built eight agricultural-experiment stations, three agrarian-resettlement projects, miles of roads, including the Atlantic highway. But it has not pleased Clemente Marroquin Rojas, 62, last year's Vice President and now Agriculture Minister. Curmudgeon Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that...
...pulled out of the jointly supported U.S.-Guatemalan Agriculture Service, ended its contract with the Agriculture Department (but did sign a new, smaller cooperation contract with the agrarian institute, a government corporation not under Marroquin Rojas). Under the renegotiated arrangement, the 22 U.S. experts will be trimmed to eight, and the U.S. contribution to Guatemala's farm improvement will drop from $500,000 annually to $300,000. Marroquin Rojas cracked, "What's the crying about?" and told La Hora readers to be sure to read The Ugly American...
Unclipped Wings. Nathanael Saint was seventh in a family of eight children who grew up in Huntingdon Valley near Philadelphia in an atmosphere of deep Puritan piety. Their father, Lawrence Saint, an eminent designer of stained glass (15 of his windows are in the Episcopal Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Washington), took his Christianity straight and Biblical. There was prayer meeting on Wednesdays, two services, plus Sunday school, on Sundays. Says Nate Saint's father: "We didn't encourage the children's friends to come and play on Sunday. I read the Bible and each...
...Boer burghers, propping the apartheid barriers raised against South Africa's 9,000,000 blacks and coloreds, the suggestion of blood ties was intolerable. But then, intolerable was what the magazine meant it to be. Beamed straight at the heart of Africa's black man, Drum in eight years has grown from a scarcely audible protest into a commanding voice. Each month 240,000 copies are distributed across Africa-more than any other magazine, black or white. By Mammy-wagon bus and human shoulder, it reaches into eight African countries (Union of South Africa, Central African Federation, Kenya...