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...disease was so uncommon that when between 1957 and 1961 eighty-seven cases suddenly appeared in Johannesburg, South Africa, the medical world signalled a mysterious epidemic of major proportions. Physicians in the area were dumbfounded. Pathologists and epidemiologists began an extensive investigation into the factors that might be common to each case. When all the data had been gathered, a startling conclusion became evident: that each of the eighty-seven rare tumors had grown in people who had been exposed to South African asbestos...
...white governments in the southern half of the continent. Rhodesia's position might become untenable if Mozambique turned hostile and its lifeline to the sea were broken; South Africa could only shudder at the possibility of unfriendly black governments on its northern borders. To forestall that possibility, Johannesburg might even send its efficient military into both territories. "We cannot make big concessions here, even if Lisbon orders them," one Portuguese official in Mozambique argues. "If we did, the South Africans would be across the border tomorrow in force, uninvited, and simply take over." In Johannesburg, the gold-share index...
South Africa would be faced with a similar situation in regard to the Mozambican port of Lourenco Marques, which now carries much of the traffic to and from Johannesburg, South Africa's industrial capital. All of this cargo would now have to be routed through one of South Africa's own four ports...
...Died. Peter Jeffrey Revson, 35, American international road racer; while test driving his Formula I UOP Shadow at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg, South Africa. A wealthy playboy-he was recently linked with Marjorie Wallace, the dethroned Miss World titleholder-Revson was more than a dilettante motorist. He was runner-up at the Indianapolis 500 in 1971 and won the British Grand Prix in the same year. His most recent major victories were the British and Canadian Grand Prix...
Powder Keg. As a result of the price runup, played-out mines are coming back to life. A young Johannesburg businessman named Desmond Fisher has bought a mine that has not been active for 13 years, and intends to bring it back into production by year's end at a cost of $1 million. At one Transvaal mine closed for a decade, 25 kilograms of gold worth about $145,000 at present prices have been produced in the past two months solely by reworking old tailings. The Grootvlei mine, which appeared to be near the end of its productive...