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...deep mine was needed to screen out cosmic rays, which would interfere with the experiment. India has such a mine, but the Indians wanted to boss the experiment themselves. Reines turned to South Africa where the University of the Witwatersrand offered him an unusual laboratory: a gold mine near Johannesburg shielded by 10,492 ft. of solid rock...
RICHARD SUZMAN '64, a South African, attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg before transferring to Harvard. This summer he attended the congress of the National Union of South African Students...
...open" universities was odious. For years the government, which heavily subsidizes all colleges, tried to force complete segregation. It was successfully fought off by alumni, faculty, and students, who asserted that the government sought to violate the autonomy of the universities. But in 1959, despite a march through downtown Johannesburg by 2,500 students and faculty clad in academic robes, the government passed the "Extention of University of Education Act." The law forbade almost all admissions of non-whites to "white" universities. Students coming into the universities now are deprived of the great advantages of being able to discuss South...
...favoritism of nonwhites at a rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...
Until last month, S.A.A.'s Boeing 707 jets operated two efficient routes between Johannesburg and Europe-one along Africa's east fringe, via Nairobi, Kenya; the other almost due north via Brazzaville, in the once-French Congo. Trouble began when, implementing the Addis Ababa agreement, Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia and Sudan barred South African aircraft from overflying their territories. S.A.A. rerouted all its flights over Libya. But then Libya also joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which...