Word: grahamstown
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Died. James L. B. Smith, 70, ichthyologist who first identified the coelacanth, a fish believed extinct for 70 million years; by his own hand (cyanide); in Grahamstown, South Africa. Until 1938, when a coelacanth was caught off the South African coast, scientists had seen it only in fossil form, a five-foot-long creature whose weird, leglike fins marked it a close relative of the amphibians that first linked sea and land animals. In the years since, a dozen coelacanths have been found, though Smith never realized his dream of studying one alive. His suicide did not surprise his wife...
Fischer was no sooner sentenced than thousands of poster-waving university Students (WHERE HAVE ALL THE FREEDOMS GONE?) took to the streets in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Grahamstown, protesting still another example of South African justice. The recipient this time was Ian Robertson, 21-year-old president of the 20,000-member National Union of South African Students, who was suddenly put under a five-year ban that prohibits him from joining in N.U.S.A.S. activities, leaving the Cape Town municipal area and teaching, once he gets his law degree. Robertson's apparent crime was to invite Senator Bobby...