Word: johannesburger
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...angle sensor for light from Mars, and turned on the tape recorder's power. Everything was going unbelievably well. Newsmen and families of the scientists gathered in JPL's Von Kármán Auditorium to await the cryptic reports from the primary tracking stations at Johannesburg in South Africa, Woomera in Australia and Goldstone in California...
...projected onto a photographic film. All told, Mariner was programmed to take and transmit up to 21 such pictures of Mars. But excited Mariner engineers could not wait for the first transmission to be completed before they sneaked their first look. They processed the half picture received by the Johannesburg and Madrid tracking stations even before Goldstone, which had taken over tracking when the others lost contact, could supply its half of the tape...
...Jamie Uys does not stint on music and dance, which are an absorbing show in themselves. But the details of native life always remain relevant to this earnest, primitive drama about a proud tribesman (Ken Gampu) whose thirst for vengeance hurls him against the apparatus of white justice in Johannesburg...
...daughter's killer-a defeated warrior who was told by a conniving witch doctor that he could regain power by eating the heart of a child. Before the witch doctor is brought down from his clifftop retreat and exposed as a fraud, Gampu has been clapped into a Johannesburg jail, charged with attempted murder. His friend in need, sent over by Legal Aid, is Stanley Baker, whose wife (Juliet Prowse) keeps prodding him to "care about people." Notwithstanding its bizarre and colorful appeal, Dingaka ends on a cautious old-fashioned note of praise for the white South African...
...knows what she wants," sighed South African Impresario Peter Toerien. "And she knows she will get it." Fair exchange. For after signing a list of contractual demands that took 41 pages and nine months to accommodate, Sexagenarian Marlene Dietrich agreed to a two-week stand in Johannesburg, her first South African appearance. Among other whims, such as having every last speck of dust hand-whisked from the stage before curtain time, Marlene insisted on two separate dressing rooms: one to "relax" in, one to dress in, so to speak...