Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes to the university at Johannesburg, meets a group of intellectual beachcombers and feels liberated from the shoals of convention. Soon she breaks with her family because they refuse to accept a black friend into the lily-white sanctity of their home. She moves into the apartment of a bohemian couple and from there to the arms of Paul Clark, "an enchanting talker" with a seductive face. She is happy because of "the intensity of my identification with living," and because her lover, who works for the Native Affairs Department, is "at grips with the huge central problem...
...From Johannesburg, South Africa, Correspondent Alexander Campbell reports that of the 15,000 miles he has flown this year, the strangest trip was from the Gold Coast capital Accra to the Nigerian capital Lagos: "I flew by West African Airways, whose emblem is a flying elephant. The passengers were mostly natives. The men wore fezzes and flowing robes, or sun helmets and white shirts hanging outside their pants. The women wore print dresses, with the luggage balanced on their heads and babies slung on their backs. The plane was also packed with freight, including crates of squawking chickens. This packed...
...Johannesburg, a pudgy, sad-faced little Hindu unlimbered the weapon with which his father tumbled an empire. Manilal Gandhi, 60-year-old son of India's revered Mahatma, was under sentence of $150 fine or 50 days in jail for his part in a deliberate protest violation of South Africa's rigid race-segregation laws. Last week Manilal withdrew his appeal and surrendered to Transvaal police. Said he: "My rightful place as a self-respecting person is in prison ... By my voluntary sufferings, I seek to melt the hearts of the government...
...Johannesburg, South Africa...
Bureaus - LONDON: Andre Laguerre, Gene Farmer, A. T. Baker, Honor Balfour George Voigt. PARIS: Eric Gibbs, Fred Klein, Curtis Prendergast, George Abell. BONN: Frank White, Tom Lambert. ROME: Robert Neville, Lester Bernstein, William Rospigliosi, John Luter. MADRID: Piero Saporiti. JOHANNESBURG: Alexander Campbell. BEIRUT: James Bell, David Richardson. NEW DELHI: James Burke, Joe David Brown, Achal Rangaswami. SINGAPORE: John Dowling. HONG KONG: John M. Mecklin. TOKYO: Dwight Martin, James L. Greenfield. MEXICO CITY: Robert Lubar, Rafael Delgado Lozano. PANAMA: Philip Payne. Rio DE JANEIRO: Cranston Jones. BUENOS AIRES: Ramelle MaCoy...