Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week of fast-breaking Foreign News stories, most of the rest of the news did not have to be laboriously dug out of statistics or pried out of travelers. On the hint of trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong...
...news had to be gathered at airport ceremonies or palace interviews. Correspondent Prendergast, for example, was all too aware of the spreading American craze for hula hoops by discovering one whirling about in Johannesburg, encircling his own nine-year-old daughter...
...them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling them to get hoops later. In Johannesburg only the white kids can afford the 65? hoops, but charitable organizations have begun handing out hoops to poor Negro children. And in Geneva, the city of Calvin, the familiar phrase to express bewildered surprise has now become "Hula...
...rule that all South African women over 16 should carry passes. All told, 900,000 "reference books" had been issued, and though the campaign met with protests and occasional violence, it was not until the government tried to extend its policy last month to the big city of Johannesburg, that it found it had seriously underestimated the power of the women. The black women of Johannesburg adopted an unusual strategy: not to avoid arrest but to welcome the chance to overcrowd the jails. Morning after morning, they would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies...
...whose crime it had been to oppose South Africa's racial apartheid. Charged with high treason and conspiracy to overthrow the government by revolution, they had all lost their jobs, been sustained almost entirely by a defense fund raised by sympathizers at home and abroad. Last week in Johannesburg, as South Africa tensely watched and waited, the absurdity of the charges against them finally became apparent...