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...designers, Johannesburg's Francois Joubert and Willem Taylor, both 27, say that 900 distaff Dillons in Kansas City, Chicago, Paris and Gibraltar have ordered the bra, which at $4.55 (including detachable covers in colors, as well as lessons in the handling of guns) has attracted 525 South African buyers since late last year. Joubert and Taylor are urging local fashion houses to manufacture special blouses for easier holster attachment, arguing "a figure that attracts an admirer can attract an attacker...
...women agree. "Any girl with a good figure will have a man around to protect her," sniffs a Johannesburg model. Other women protest that a bra holster makes them appear top-heavy on the portside. To which Britain's staid Tailor & Cutter added archly: "A couple of hand grenades would seem more esthetic." Joubert and Taylor are unworried. They have nothing to fear but the topless dress...
Many a U.S. editor may quarrel with such criticism, but it comes from a man who has more than earned the right to make it. As editor of the Rand* Daily Mail in Johannesburg, Laurence Gandar, 49, has persistently assailed his country's race policies with the dedication and energy that he finds lacking in U.S. newspapers...
With Stanleyville in tenuous government control and 500 hostages still scattered throughout a rebel-held reach of bush almost as large as France, Premier Moise Tshombe clearly needed more help. Major Mike Hoare, commander of the mercenaries fighting for the Congo government, sent his adjutant winging to Johannesburg to hire 150 more white soldiers. Tshombe himself flew off to Paris, where he pleaded unsuccessfully for assistance from Charles de Gaulle. Said Tshombe: "We are lost children struggling through the dark...
...have compatible blood on hand for the delivery. Dr. Molthan took a pint of Mrs. Hutson's own blood and stored it. She cabled South Africa, and back by refrigerated air freight came a pint of Mrs. Shabalala's blood. Said Mrs. Shabalala, a darkroom technician in Johannesburg: "The doctor had to talk to me for a long time before I agreed to give blood-it is a procedure entirely foreign to the normal African." At Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Richard Rosenfield alerted a Puerto Rican patient to stand by. In Ohio, a statewide search...