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...clubhouse at the Augusta National Golf Club, defending Masters Champion Gary Player, 26, nervously sipped his nightly glass of Gastric Mixture G.6690-a concoction he had carted all the way from Muller's Pharmacy in Johannesburg, South Africa. "I'm playing tremendous golf," he said, "and I've got a good chance to win. But let's face it: Arnold Palmer is the man to beat. He's the best player in the world today, and he practically owns this golf course...
...gauge the humanist season in Russia in the spring of 1962, the editors sent in Correspondent James Bell, a Kansan who has reported for TIME for 17 years in Chicago, New York, Beirut, Hong Kong and Johannesburg, is now bureau chief in Bonn. Bell immediately found that it is much easier to see people than when he was last in Moscow in 1956, and that there is far less fear and red tape. He felt that he was not restricted in any way; the only slight hitch came when neither of his interpreters wanted to be seen talking...
...deterrent, the Immorality Act has worked none too well over the years. In the past decade, about 4,000 mixed unmarried couples have been convicted. Victims need not be caught in the act; they can be jailed if discovered in suspicious circumstances. Last summer John Rudd, 34, a prominent Johannesburg businessman, was arrested in his home with Dottie Tiyo, a dark-skinned 21-year-old professional dancer; when the police came in, Rudd wore only a towel, and the girl had his bathrobe on. Each drew six months in prison...
...huge deal in the works. South Africa could hardly afford to insult the visiting Japanese trade delegations that now would regularly visit the country. Without hesitation, Pretoria's Group Areas Board announced that all Japanese henceforth would be considered white, at least for purposes of residence, and Johannesburg's city fathers decided that "in view of the trade agreements" they would open the municipal swimming pools to Japanese guests...
...Johannesburg the Chinese were slipping in on Japanese coattails, at least at the swimming pools. "It would be extremely difficult for our gatekeepers to distinguish between Chinese and Japanese," admitted the chairman of the city council's Health and Amenities Committee. But as for the broader question of Chinese color status. Verwoerd's government was making no promises. It all recalled Hermann Göring's retort in 1934 when told that a favorite Munich art dealer was a non-Aryan: "I shall decide who is a Jew around here...