Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...REPORT FROM JOHANNESBURG...
This spring week in Johannesburg the flowering plums were massed with pink after a hard winter. But I found that in South Africa's Golden City you can't have even a haircut without bumping into crime...
...silver & gold Johannesburg hotel room one day last week, ex-Royal Air Force Ace Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 40, presided over the first National Congress of his newly formed War Veterans Action Movement. On the wall behind him hung a tiny stucco dancing girl; in front sat 85 sturdy ex-servicemen, ranging from white-mustached former brasshats to fresh-faced youths...
Last week the veterans quickly buckled down to business. Said Congress Chairman Louis Kaneberman, a Johannesburg lawyer: "Those not with us are against us-there can be no compromise. To the timid we have given courage and inspiration where it was most lacking...
...eight-month-old South African lion cub named Chaka (after the early 19th Century Zulu tyrant) was put aboard a plane in Johannesburg, headed for Moscow as a gift from the Russian consulate to Joseph Stalin...