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...darkness of a South African summer morning last week, thousands of Johannesburg policemen-the whites armed with Sten guns and rifles, the blacks with clubs and spears-filed out of their barracks and drove in 300 trucks to a narrow strip of grassland that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...
...joined in with an even stronger attack on two new racialist bills: one designed to take the teaching of black children out of the hands of the Christian missions, the other threatening to cancel the leases on churches whose pastors deplore Apartheid. Said Anglican Bishop Richard A. Reeves of Johannesburg: "We have no alternative but to declare the truth as God has given us to see the truth [even though] our churches [may] be closed by ... the State...
Deep in his heart, every art collector yearns to pick up a painting for a few dollars, dust it off and discover it is really a long-lost old master. For one collector, the wish has come true. In Johannesburg, Businessman (tire-recapping) Maurice Hirsch poked around at a local auction sale and bought for $375 a painting he thought "looked good." Local collectors were doubtful, but Hirsch sent detail photographs of the painting to Belgian Historian Leo van Puyvelde. The verdict: Van Puyvelde had examined that very painting before in 1937. It is, he wrote, L'Erection...
...Johannesburg last week, Judge Henry John Clayden convened the Witwatersrand division of South Africa's Supreme Court for one important minute-just long enough to hand down a copy of his lengthy (100,000 words) decision in the longest (385 days) civil suit, awarding the largest damages ($1,600,000) in South African legal history...
Operated by South African Airways, a partner of BOAC, the Comet Yoke Yoke was on its regular scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that had grounded its Comet fleet following the last fatal crash (TIME, Jan. 18), but Yoke Yoke's 21 passengers were brimming with confidence. Waiting for take-off at Rome's Ciampino Airport, one of the three Americans, a Massachusetts shoe-parts manufacturer named Ray Wilkinson, said to his companion: "This is progress. Sure, they've had accidents, but everything...