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...Birnbaum. Birnbaum brings 22 years' experience to his new post, including stints as senior editor in New York and European cultural correspondent based in London. Working with him as associate editor and senior writer will be Curtis Prendergast, a veteran chief of TIME'S Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg and London News bureaus. David B. Tinnin joins the new staff from his post as a correspondent in our Europe bureau, and Priscilla B. Badger becomes head reporter-researcher. In New York, R. Edward Jackson, a former World writer, Rome bureau chief and deputy chief of correspondents, will serve as international...
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...Rupert started out as a university chemistry lecturer and got into the tobacco field out of a vague desire to "manufacture something." In 1942, with only $30, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. After World War II he borrowed enough from friends and banks to buy an unused flour mill and two cigarette-making machines. Soon he was nearly broke. Rupert staved off disaster in 1948 by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market its brands (Pall Mall, Consulate) in South Africa. Five years later he bought out Rothman...
...proved so successful that Holiday Inns last year followed up with another hotel and casino in Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa. Now the chain has opened a third casino at Gaborone, the dust-bowl capital of Botswana, which is located only 200 miles from Johannesburg...
...police violence shocked students and the public alike and led to a series of angry demonstrations on most of the country's white university campuses. In Johannesburg, students carried placards that read, BLOOD, BATONS, BRUTALITY and WE WILL NOT BE BEATEN. In Cape Town, 400 students held another protest meeting on the cathedral steps and attracted 10,000 spectators. This time police broke up the meeting with tear gas but carefully kept their truncheons in their belts...