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...routine by-election in Germiston, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, should have been a shoo-in for Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...
...support for his plan from many white Afrikaners. With more than 600 industries, including the world's largest gold refinery, Germiston (pop. 216,123) generally reflects the sentiments of the conservative industrial workers and farmers who have formed the backbone of the National Party. Said the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "The battle for Afrikanerdom is on with a vengeance, and the politics of South Africa will not be the same again...
Reported by Peter Hawthorne/ Johannesburg and Jack E. White/ New York
Tony and Gisela Bloom, an attractive South African couple making the London-Venice run, compared the v.s.O.E. to the Blue Train, which runs between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown and is considered one of the world's most luxurious. It was Tony Bloom who provided the only honest-to-Bond suspense on one trip: he found $17,000 in a dirty roll of bills next to the piano. The money was claimed, an official reported, by "a Frenchman." Mystery and intrigue are not dead on the Orient Express...
...quit for a time because of an expressed feeling of dread. He got over it and died in the Austrian Grand Prix at Graz. Dashing Peter Revson gave "Miss World" a playful squeeze and asked, "Is there a better life?" His ended in the South African Grand Prix at Johannesburg...