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With the unofficial co-operation of the Business School, Witwatersrand (Wits.) University in Johannesburg, South Africa, will establish a business school...
...indeed, for a man whose skin is both white and thick, the land of apartheid can, in a sense, be a land of unlimited opportunity. Despite Afro-Asian efforts to cut off its trade, gold-and-diamond-rich South Africa is bursting with prosperity, and jobs abound. Recently a Johannesburg auto firm conducted a monthlong, nationwide advertising campaign for mechanics, did not get a single reply...
...concrete caverns of Johannesburg the other Harvard stands. With a 20-foot long golden sign it proclaims itself--South Africa's oldest and largest commercial and secretarial school. Harvard in Johannesburg is more reputable and restrained than its arch-rival Yale. That secretarial school, as one might expect, has a gaudy red neon sign which hawks its wares above Phil Morkel's furniture and Bethlehem's home appliances. The third member of the Big Three, nearby Princeton College, is currently embarked on a major building program...
...born Larushka Skikne, in Lithuania, in 1928. His father was a Russian builder who moved to Johannesburg and raised him there from the age of six. He ran away from home and joined the South African Navy when he was 14. Later, he drifted into London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and one day, while passing under the sign attached to Harvey Nichols' furnishings store, he thought the first of the two names looked just splendid in lights. So he changed his own name to Laurence Harvey...
...voice is still," said the Boston Globe in a particularly moving elegy. "The vigor is no more. The last frontier has been passed. A grief inexpressible in words fills the heart of this nation today." The London Daily Mail mourned "a man the world could not afford to lose"; Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail pronounced Kennedy "one of the greatest leaders of modern times...