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Died. François C. Erasmus, 70, South African politician, one of his country's fiercest supporters of anti-British, white-supremacist doctrines, who in 1952, as Minister of Defense, purged most of the military's World War II leaders because they had fought in "Britain's war," and in 1960, as Minister of Justice, was largely responsible for the ill-famed Sharpeville massacre of 72 Africans protesting the apartheid passbook laws; of a heart attack; in Bredasdorp, South Africa...
...heartland of South Viet Nam is not the barren highlands and bamboo valleys north of Saigon, where U.S. forces have fought the war's fiercest battles, but the swampy southern tip that is sluiced by the Mekong River. The Delta is the dwelling place of more than a third of the country's population, the rice basket for half of its food-and the Viet Cong's prime source of men, money and supplies. The Communists very nearly seized it all in the grim months of late 1964 and early 1965 before the U.S. buildup. District towns...
Imelda joined him on the campaign; the two sang duets and applied her corn-padre family connections on his behalf. The Marcos-Macapagal encounter produced some of the fiercest infighting ever seen in a nation that averages 60 murders every election. Macapagal's supporters spread rumors that Imelda had posed in the nude for magazines and blue movies; Marcos accused Macapagal of everything from corruption to ineptitude. When the votes came in last November, Marcos had won by 660,000 votes, out of a total of 7 million...
...Nigger, Get Out!" Among whites, the fiercest prejudice is found in the lower-income ethnic enclaves where jobs and homes are most immediately threatened by the Negro trying to break out of the ghetto. "We have our own section here," said a storekeeper in South Boston. "Why can't the Negroes be happy in their own area?" Chicago's "white riots" against Negroes who were demonstrating for open housing were fomented largely by first-and second-generation Americans-mostly of Irish, Italian, Swedish and Eastern European ancestry-who have a long history of ethnic animosity...
That Boy. At Manhattan's University Club last week, the galleries were packed as two of the game's fiercest competitors had at each other in the finals of the National Singles championship. The favorite in private betting (at 5 to 3) was Samuel Purdy Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School...