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Dean Ford, professor of History, was active in organizing the committee which raised funds in the United States. Hendrik S. Houthakker, professor of Economics, and Nicholas Bloembergen, Gordon McKay professor of Applied Physics, were members of the Faculty on the committee...
When Balthazar Johannes Vorster took over as South Africa's Prime Minister six months ago, the world had little reason to expect that he would be much different from the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, the apostle of apartheid. Vorster had, after all, been Verwoerd's police boss for five years, and he looked even tougher and more unbending than the white-thatched Verwoerd. But Vorster has been a considerable surprise. While not basically changing South Africa's policy of racial separation, he has proved far more reasonable than his predecessor, injecting some humanity and even humor into South...
...these are palliatives. The problem always returns to the question of European national economic boundaries. Hendrik Casimir, research director of The Netherlands' N.V. Philips' Lamp, says ironically: "If America really wants to do something, let it start introducing different currencies in all the 50 states and impose serious boundaries between them. If this experiment were tried, ten or 15 years from now we might well bridge...
...vast majority answered the rhetorical question in a vigorous negative. We continued our broad coverage of the Vietnamese war, beginning with the Man of the Year cover story on General William Westmoreland. Also memorable, we feel, were our report on the South African situation, which featured Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the cover shortly before his assassination; our tour of swinging London; and the introduction of several new leaders on the world scene, including Germany's new chancellor, Kurt Kiesinger...
There was no doubting the guilt of the man on trial in Cape Town last week. He was Dimitrio Tsafendas, the 48-year-old parliamentary messenger who stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd to death before the eyes of scores of horrified witnesses in the House of Assembly on Sept. 6. Many of Verwoerd's loyal followers bitterly demanded the vengeance of the gallows. They did not get it. After three days of testimony by four psychiatrists, Supreme Court Justice Andries Beyers ruled that Tsafendas was insane and ordered him to be detained in prison indefinitely...