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...Johannesburg, South Africa...
...news of the Supreme Court's decision, anti-Malan stockbrokers in Johannesburg waltzed gleefully around the exchange floor, and many of South Africa's good white people rejoiced...
...good grey New York Times, which can pack more into a lead sentence than a Saratoga trunk should be expected to hold, sometimes can't get the lid closed. Last week a special dispatch from Johannesburg began: "Nationalist Party members of Parliament, sitting as the High Court of Parliament, handed down a ruling today setting aside the appeal court's invalidation of the Voters Act that removed colored (mixed blood) voters from the common electoral roll...
Starting with thrice-weekly Comet flights between London and Johannesburg, British Overseas Airways Corp. recently launched a weekly service between London and Ceylon, and made a 23,000-mile trail-blazing flight to Tokyo and back. In a few weeks BOAC plans to start regular service to Singapore, add a Tokyo run early next year. The speedy Comet cruises at 480 m.p.h., but eats so much fuel it stops frequently to reload. Even so, it flies a 6,724-mile course to Johannesburg, with five stops, in about 24 hours. It has proved so popular that it carries capacity loads...
Swart relented-for one evening only. He told Johannesburg cops to look the other way while Shao and guests took a nip. So Shao went to the ball. Its purpose: to raise funds for Alcoholics Anonymous, which, in South Africa, is strictly an all-white organization...